This wasn’t how anyone had drawn up the start of Brett Baty’s major league career. A highly-rated prospect as he worked his way up through the Mets’ system, the 25-year-old is at something of a crossroads in his professional baseball career this year.
Before the 2022 and 2023 seasons, Baty was considered one of the better prospects in all of baseball. All three of Baseball Prospectus, Baseball America, and MLB Pipeline ranked him in the upper tiers of their top-100 lists ahead of both of those seasons. Here at Amazin’ Avenue, we ranked him third among the Mets’ prospects going into the 2023 season, and he trailed only Francisco Alvarez and the then-recently-signed Kodai Senga.