After signing Bo Bichette and trading for Luis Robert Jr., the Mets had one more big move in a week. On January 21, they traded Jett Willliams and Brandon Sproat to the Brewers in exchange for Freddy Peralta and Tobias Myers. While Peralta was the bigger name and centerpiece of the trade, Tobias Myers isn’t just some random throw-in. He’s a major piece worthy of acclaim.
Most Mets fans know Tobias Myers from his time with the Brewers, which the Mets have been on the unfortunate end of at times. But
his career has been a long, winding road to his major league success in Milwaukee. Hailing from Winter Haven, Florida, he was drafted out of high school by the Baltimore Orioles in the sixth round of the draft. After a little over a year in the Orioles organization he was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for Tim Beckham.
From 2017 to 2021, Myers climbed through the Rays system, making it to Triple-A before being traded once again to the Cleveland Guardians in exchange for Junior Caminero. He struggled when on the Guardians Triple-A team in 2022, with a 6.00 ERA in 60 innings, with 40 strikeouts and 33 walks. He was designated for assignment and subsequently traded to the Giants, where he made only two appearances, with a 9.00 ERA in just three innings with the Sacramento River Cats. After being designated for assignment a second time, he spent most of the rest of the season on the Chicago White Sox Triple-A team, putting up a 15.92 ERA in 13 innings.
He was released by the White Sox at the end of September 2022, and in November 2022 was signed to a minor league contract by the Brewers. After putting up alright stats across both Double-A and Triple-A in 2023, he had a great stint in Triple-A in 204, putting up a 1.45 ERA in 18.2 innings across five games (three of them starts). He bounced back and forth between the majors and Triple-A at the start of 2024, before being called up to the majors for good on June 5, 2024.
In 27 games with the Brewers in 2024, Myers had a 3.00 ERA across 138 innings. He had 127 strikeouts to 36 walks, with a 8.3 K/9, 138 ERA+, and he accumulated 2.7 bWAR. Of his 27 games with Milwaukee in 2024, 25 of them were starts. He also made a postseason start, starting the third game of the Wild Card series against the Mets. He went five innings with just two hits and five strikeouts, and when he was on the mound it wasn’t looking good for the Mets chances of advancing (and it didn’t look good until fellow future Met Devin Williams took the mound).
2025 was a bit more of a struggle for Myers. He suffered a left oblique strain that caused him to miss most of the first month of the season. After that, he bounced back and forth several times between Triple-A and the major league team. In 22 games with the Brewers, he had a 3.55 ERA across 50.2 innings, with 38 strikeouts to 15 walks, a 6.8 K/9, 117 ERA+, and accumulated only 0.7 bWAR. Of his 22 games, only six were starts, and he finished eight games, though he didn’t get any saves. His Triple-A stats were similar, with a 3.77 ERA in twelve games (all starts), 55 strikeouts and 17 walks in 59.2 innings, with a K/9 of 8.3, matching his 2024 major league average.
Now that he’s with the Mets, there’s some versatility in his role. They lost some bullpen options to injury, including Reed Garrett and Dedniel Núñez. They traded Brandon Sproat in the very trade that got them Tobias Myers, and Tylor Megill is also out for the season, so there’s also some more opportunity for rotation depth. And Myers could find use in the in between, a long reliever in the bullpen with rotational flexibility. And there’s time for him to grow into a more defined role in New York, since he’s under team control until 2031.
Freddy Peralta may have headlined the trade with the Brewers, but in acquiring Tobias Myers they got a very good pitcher with tons of flexibility and control. Even with a few more struggles last season, he’s a good starter and relief option, and should he be more like the pitcher he was in 2024 he could very easily find himself in the Mets rotation at some point in the next five years.
