One could make a compelling argument that no player in the Mets organization had a more disappointing 2023 season than Brett Baty. Some players in the system may have put up worse numbers, sure. But Baty—after making his major league debut the year before—entered the season as Baseball Prospectus’s 17th-best prospect in all of baseball, and the Mets had themselves a wide open hole at third base that they were undoubtedly hoping their former first round pick would be able to fill for years to come.
Baty did not prove he could be that player. Instead, he looked like a player who didn’t belong in the major leagues, pairing a pretty dreadful bat (68 wRC+) with a pretty dreadful glove (his -4 OAA at third base doesn’t fully capture the level of shakiness and inconsistency he showed at the position at times).