With the Mets’ season having come to an end on Sunday via the time-honored tradition of losing to the lowly Marlins to miss the playoffs on the final day of the season, we Mets fans are just a few days into a long offseason. Coming off the team’s deep run through the playoffs last year, the extra month will feel particularly long this time around. But while we wait for the rest of baseball to wrap it up so we can move on to the offseason, let’s take a quick look at the Mets’ current 40-man roster
and the status of each of the players on it. We’ll start with pitchers today.
Huascar Brazobán: Having bounced between the Mets’ major league roster and Triple-A Syracuse this year, the 35-year-old has options remaining and is under team control through the end of the 2029 season—so long as the Mets tender him a contract at the end of each of those years.
Griffin Canning (IL-60): Signed to a one-year deal for the 2025 season, Canning was a pleasant surprise early in the year before rupturing his Achilles, missed the rest of the season, and will hit free agency with a still-long recovery ahead of him.
Alex Carrillo: The 28-year-old throws hard and has options remaining, but he could be a roster casualty once the Mets free up spots for other moves, including the protection of some players from the Rule 5 draft.
Edwin Díaz: Whether or not Díaz opts out of the remaining three years of his five-year, $102 million contract is one of the biggest questions facing the Mets this offseason, but he’s become a cornerstone of the franchise that would be difficult to replace if he were to depart.
Reed Garrett: After breaking out with the Mets early in the 2024 season, Garrett finished each of the past two seasons with an ERA in the upper threes, but more importantly, he’s facing Tommy John surgery and likely won’t pitch in a big league game again until 2027.
Justin Hagenman: Having eaten some innings for the Mets at the major league level this year, Hagenman actually had a better ERA in the big leagues than he did in Syracuse. He has options remaining heading into next year, but he’s another pitcher who could be removed from the forty this offseason.
Ryan Helsley: One of the worst-performing trade deadline acquisitions in recent Mets history, Helsley’s set to hit free agency.
Clay Holmes: With a season of starting under his belt, Holmes figures to be penciled in to the Mets’ rotation plans for 2026, ideally with an eye on getting him deeper into games and not limiting his pitch counts so drastically in the second half of the season.
Max Kranick (IL-60): Tommy John surgery will have Kranick out for quite a while, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see the team cut him this winter to free up a roster spot.
Sean Manaea: Coming off an injury-plagued first half and poor performance in the second half, Manaea is set for minor elbow surgery that everyone hopes will have him looking much more like his 2024 self over the second and third years of his contract.
Nolan McLean: If you had to set the Mets’ rotation for 2026 right now, McLean would be the team’s Opening Day starter without hesitation.
Tylor Megill (IL-60): This year was the fifth season that saw Megill spend at least some of his time in the big leagues, but Tommy John surgery will likely keep him out for the entirety of the 2026 season.
A.J. Minter (IL-60): One of the Mets’ biggest relief pitcher signings in recent years, Minter’s season ended very early because of surgery on a torn lat. He has a player option for 2026 for $11 million that seems like an absolute lock for him to pick up.
Frankie Montas (IL-60): A disastrous signing, Montas was hurt to begin the 2025 season, pitched terribly during his rehab assignment, pitched even worse for the Mets after getting activated from the injured list, and saw his season come to an end because of—you guessed it—Tommy John surgery. He’s unlikely to pitch for the Mets again before his two-year, $34 million contract is up at the end of next season.
Dedniel Núñez (IL-60): The Tommy John club was a big one this year, and Núñez wound up being a member. He never looked right in the early going this year, and coming off elbow issues late in the 2024 season, his diagnosis was ultimately unsurprising.
David Peterson: For much of this season, Peterson was the Mets’ ace. He ended the year looking like he might not be a major league pitcher. Here’s hoping that was just fatigue and that he’ll be back to his good self next year. He’s only under team control through the end of the 2026 season.
Jonathan Pintaro: Having spent much of his year in Double-A Binghamton, Pintaro got one appearance as one of the Mets’ many pitching carousel moves. His 5.22 ERA in his time in Syracuse following that outing with the Mets wasn’t super encouraging, unfortunately.
Brooks Raley: The Mets have a team option on Raley for 2026 that seems like a lock to be picked up coming off the very good work he did in 2025 coming off Tommy John surgery at the age of 37.
Tyler Rogers: Another rental acquisition at the deadline, Rogers is set to hit free agency. Whether or not he would be a good fit for the Mets moving forward will have much to do with the team’s approach to infield defense moving forward.
Dylan Ross: The hard-throwing 25-year-old got called up to the big leagues for the first time with two days left in the Mets’ season and didn’t make an appearance, but his work in the minors this year—even with astronomical walk rates—will probably give him a chance at making his major league debut next year.
Christian Scott (IL-60): There’s a good chance that Scott will be ready to go early in the 2026 season, as he had Tommy John surgery late in the 2024 season.
Kodai Sega: The 32-year-old is one of the more puzzling cases in baseball right now. If you were to look solely at his ERA this year, you’d probably be impressed, but his inability to stay on the field or to just pitch well at all following a relatively brief absence with a hamstring injury would’ve probably kept him off the Mets’ playoff roster if they hadn’t been eliminated by the Marlins.
Drew Smith (IL-60): Another Tommy John guy, Smith was signed to a team-friendly deal while he recovers—like Brooks Raley was—and could be in the mix for innings in the 2026 bullpen.
Gregory Soto: Like the pair of aforementioned rental relievers, Soto is set to hit free agency. He might’ve fared better as a Met if he hadn’t been worked so hard following the deadline.
Brandon Sproat: With a good showing in his major league starts down the stretch, Sproat will definitely be in the mix to spend more time in the majors next year.
Ryne Stanek: In hindsight, Stanek probably wasn’t the best arm to bring back from the 2024 bullpen, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see the team move on when he hits free agency in about a month.
Jonah Tong: While his results were mixed in the big leagues, Tong looked very good in his good outings, and even if he starts the 2026 season in Syracuse, he figures to be near the top of the list for call-ups when the Mets inevitably need them.
Brandon Waddell: Like Hagenman, Waddell served the Mets well in his various brief stints as a call-up, albeit with slightly better results. And similarly, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the Mets let him go in the roster crunch that they’re facing when all of their 60-day IL players have to count against the 40-man roster.
Austin Warren: The Mets really went to great lengths to try to give us all the lowest Immaculate Grid scores possible with their roster moves in the bullpen this year. If you could name every pitcher to have pitched for the 2025 Mets—even just fifteen minutes after having read this piece—your memory is outstanding.
Danny Young (IL-60): Last but not least, the left-handed Danny Young also had Tommy John surgery this year. And yes, he could be a roster casualty, too.
