Mitch Voit
Week: 6 G, 22 AB, .500/.593/.909, 11 H, 4 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 5 BB, 3 K, 3/3 SB (Double-A)
2026 Season: 76 G, 293 AB, .242/.349/.396, 71 H, 12 2B, 0 3B, 11 HR, 37 BB, 70 K, 36/44 SB, .278 BABIP (High-A) / 6 G, 22 AB, .500/.593/.909, 11 H, 4 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 5 BB, 3 K, 3/3 SB, .556 BABIP (Double-A)
Mitch Voit played in about 20 games at the end of last season, but for all intents and purposes, 2026 is really his first season as a professional, and it’s been a bit of a tumultuous year so far.
In April, he
appeared in 19 games for the Cyclones and hit .224/.314/.382 with 3 doubles, 3 home runs, 7 walks to 20 strikeouts, and 10 stolen bases in 11 attempts, good for a 87 wRC+. In May, he appeared in 18 games for Brooklyn and hit .224/.316/.403 with another 3 doubles and another 3 home runs, 13 walks to 11 strikeouts, and 4 stolen bases in 6 attempts, resulting in a wRC+ of 87. In June, his bat heated up in the Coney Island sun and he hit .305/.426/.476 in 21 games 5 doubles, 2 home runs, an even 13 walks to 13 strikeouts, and 12 stolen bases in 13 attempts, good for a 144 wRC+. He was not able to sustain that pace and regressed in July, hitting .215/.325/.323 in 17 games with 1 double, 2 home runs, 9 walks to 13 strikeouts, and 10 stolen bases in 14 games, resulting in an 80 wRC+.
On July 27, Voit was promoted to Double-A Binghamton. The promotion wasn’t really a promotion based on merit, but really just one of those things that had to be done. Voit’s strikeout rate wasn’t terrible in Brooklyn, his walk rate was solid, his batted ball data and spray chart weren’t that bad, first-hand reports weren’t citing major deficiencies in his ability at the plate like a poor eye or bad swing decisions.
Realistically, while he wasn’t necessarily tearing the cover off the ball, there wasn’t really too much more for Voit to do in Brooklyn. In the six games it’s been so far with Binghamton, Voit literally has been tearing the cover off the ball. More important than the 11 hits he logged is the fact that of those 11 hits, more than half have been for extra bases. Voit is not a slugger necessarily, but he’s got a little pop and he’s at his best as a hitter when he’s spraying line drive extra base hits all over the field.
Obviously, Voit isn’t going to keep up this pace. There’s no need to dig into the details to know that he isn’t going to OPS 1.502 and post a 286 wRC+ for two months (I did anyway; Reading’s FirstEnergy Stadium park factors heavily favor hitting, his hit spray is all ferkakte and his batted ball data is hilariously unsustainable). That said, if Voit can keep his line drive rate in the mid-20s with flyball and groundball rates even between 35%-45%, that would be optimal.
Jonah Tong
Week: 1 G (1 GS), 5.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 7 K (Triple-A)
2026 Season: 18 G (18 GS), 80.2 IP, 72 H, 56 R, 47 ER (5.24 ERA), 48 BB, 100 K, .300 BABIP (Triple-A) / 3 G (0 GS), 10.0 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 4 ER (3.60 ERA), 7 BB, 7 K, .219 BABIP (MLB)
This past week was one of those weeks where pitching really wasn’t all that great. Jonah Tong’s five inning performance wasn’t great because of its length, but he limited the Red Wings offense to just two hits, did not allow a run, issued only two free passes, and struck out seven. With those strikeouts, Tong reached the 100 K mark for the third year in a row. Unlike 2025 and 2026, the right-hander is not the organizational leader in the category and may or may not end the season at the top of that stat; even factoring in the seven strikeouts he recorded while rostered at the MLB level, the right-hander still trails Jonathan Santucci (127).
On the year, Tong is throwing his fastball 47.7% of the time, his changeup 22.7% of the time, his cutter 15.6% of the time, and his curveball 14% of the time. In this start, the right-hander went with his fastball 54%, his changeup 26%, his cutter 11% and his curveball 9%. His cutter remains his least effective pitch, and lo and behold, he used it less and saw better results. Against it, batters are hitting .300/.386/.540 against it with a 23.0 whiff rate, as opposed to his fastball, which batters are hitting .213/.353/.386 against with a 25.4 whiff rate, changeup, which batters are hitting .241/.337/.506 against with a 37.9% whiff rate, and curveball, which batters are hitting .238/.319/.405 against with a 30.7 whiff rate.
I remain dumbfounded that the organization did so much tinkering with Tong over the off-season to begin with. I, personally, do not believe that anything needed to be tinkered with, as he had the success that he had doing what he did, but what’s done is done. Not to beat a dead horse, but the question is this now: how long does this continue? His command and control, which was never that great to begin with, has taken a step back. His fastball has been less effective, which is also partially why his strikeout rate has gone down a bit. His slider grip, a pitch that wasn’t used much but flashed average or so, was swapped out for a pitch that is still below-average in terms of results. It is August 4th, four full months into the 2026 season, do they just ride out the rest of the year? Have we seen enough and start changing things ASAP for the two months of the season that is left? Is this a permanent change they are going to force on the right-hander for his tenure as a Met?
