The offseason work and the gym sessions that never ended are paying off for Jeff McNeil.
Three years later.
The late-blooming Mets prospect is having his career year — really, a year that can save his career — and showing power that hadn’t existed prior to his body transformation following the 2015 season.
A 2013 12th-round pick who was a 6-foot-1, 165-pound utility player and slap hitter believed he had to muscle his way onto the Mets’ radar after three minor league seasons and four home runs. So he pumped iron, trying to pump a new dimension into his game for a solid, but not spectacular bat.