When the Mets traded for Huascar Brazobán in the summer of 2024, it was seen as a minor, but craft move. Brazobán, a late bloomer in terms of big league appearances, was under team control through 2028,
had two options remaining, and had some interesting facets of his game just below the surface. That didn’t really translate into quality innings in 2024, but 2025 saw Brazobán make good on the hype that was there after his trade and became one of the more reliable arms in the Mets’ bullpen.
Brazobán exceeded his major league innings max last season, tossing 63 innings in 52 appearances (plus an additional 13.2 innings for Triple-A Syracuse,) good for a 3.57 ERA. That ERA was under 2.00 until mid-June, when the strain of appearing in more than a third of the Mets’ games up to that point began to wear on his arm a bit. Like many healthy, effective relievers, Brazobán was overworked early in the year, and his season never quite met the lofty expectations that were dreamed of over his first 25 appearances.
As has been the case throughout his career, Brazobán is quite good at limiting hard contact. This is achieved by having folks chase his pitches quite a bit, using a sinker and a changeup to induce swings where batters can’t square up the ball easily. In 2025, Brazobán paired that with the lowest walk rate of his career and a more than 50% groundball rate.
At the end of June, Brazobán hit a bad streak, giving up earned runs in five of his nine appearances that month, with three of those appearances seeing three or more runs scoring. He eventually righted the ship, but with the need for fresh arms constantly throughout the summer, Brazobán spent a few stints in Triple-A to both rest and allow spot-starters and innings eaters in the bullpen to get some playing time for the big league club.
Despite going into his age 36 season, Brazobán is only entering his fifth big league season, and just negotiated his contract above the league minimum ($1.05 million). With a remade bullpen of Devin Williams, Luke Weaver, A.J. Minter, and Brooks Raley holding down the fort, Brazobán will hopefully be able to not be overtaxed and can be a valuable contributor to the Mets relief corps throughout the year.
