In this four-part series, we look back on the minor leaguers that the Mets released or traded over 2025. Today, we focus on left-handed pitchers.
02/01/25: DSL Mets Blue released LHP Franklin Arciniegas.
02/01/25: DSL Mets Blue released LHP Darling Felix.
02/01/25: DSL Mets Blue released LHP Misael Lopez.
02/01/25: DSL Mets Blue released LHP Angel De La Rosa.
02/22/25: St. Lucie Mets released LHP Javier Atencio.
• A signing out of the Venezuela for just $75,000 during the 2018-2019 international free agent
signing period, Javier Atencio’s early career was start-and-stop due to injuries and interruptions to the MiLB schedule. The 20-year-old was sent to full-season ball in an aggressive assignment in 2022 for someone with virtually no professional experience, but thrived nonetheless, posting a 2.27 ERA in 39.2 innings. The southpaw struggled in his sophomore season in 2023, posting poor numbers and having his season end prematurely due to injury. He missed all of 2024 due to that injury and was released prior to the start of the 2025 season.
02/28/25: St. Lucie Mets released LHP Brayhans Barreto.
03/07/25: St. Lucie Mets released LHP Jeremy Peguero.
05/27/25: LHP Genesis Cabrera elected free agency.
• Cabrera ended up playing for 6 teams in 2025: the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, the Chicago Cubs, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Triple-A Syracuse Mets, and the Triple-A St. Paul Saints. If you want to count them, he also currently playing for the Leones del Escogido of the Dominican Winter League bringing his grand total to 7.
06/16/25: Syracuse Mets released LHP Anthony Gose.
• Gose signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks a few days after being released by the Mets and appeared in 14 games for the Triple-A Reno Aces before being released by them as well. The 34-year-old outfielder-turned-infielder is currently playing with the Tomateros de Culiacan in the Mexican Pacific Winter League, but in a few months, teams will likely start coming out of the woodwork to say the same things over and over again: we want to sign Anthony Gose.
08/02/25: Syracuse Mets released LHP Colin Poche.
-Poche returned to his home planet.
09/29/25: LHP Richard Lovelady elected free agency.
• Lovelady was re-signed about a month later.
11/06/25: LHP Daniel Juarez elected free agency.
• Juarez never made one of our Top 25 Prospect list, or even received ancillary votes, but he has been a stalwart of the system for years. In the lower minors, the Venezuelan reliever was, at times, outright dominant and unhittable, but he was exposed in the upper levels of the minor league ladder; he had a 1.74 ERA in 41.1 innings over the course of 27 games in Low-A, a perfect 0.00 ERA in 20.0 innings over 17 games in High-A, but a 4.96 ERA in 103.1 innings over 75 games Double-A, with his peripherals taking major steps backwards to boot.
11/06/25: LHP Joe La Sorsa elected free agency.
