Mets Daily Prospect Report, 3/28/26: Happy minor league opening day!

Triple-A: Syracuse Mets (1-0) SYRACUSE 3, WORCESTER 1 (BOX) Welcome back to minor league baseball! With Nolan McLean and Carson Benge both on the major league roster and all but guaranteed to accrue enough innings/at-bats to graduate from rookie status, Jonah Tong will soon be Mets’ number one prosp

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Triple-A: Syracuse Mets (1-0)

SYRACUSE 3, WORCESTER 1 (BOX)

Welcome back to minor league baseball! With Nolan McLean and Carson Benge both on the major league roster and all but guaranteed to accrue enough innings/at-bats to graduate from rookie status, Jonah Tong will soon be Mets’ number one prospect, and the right-hander picked up where he left off last season, throwing four scoreless innings en route to Syracuse’s first win of the 2026 season. In the top of the fourth, Jose Rojas slugged a two-run homer to give the Mets the lead,

a lead that they would not relinquish. Anderson Severino and Austin Warren combined to throw three more scoreless innings after Tong left, while Nick Morabito added on an additional run in the seventh. Things got a little hairy in the bottom of the eighth, when Nick Burdi loaded up the bases without a single out, but he eventually navigated out of the inning allowing just a single run on a groundout. Joe Jaques had a much easier time in the bottom of the ninth, allowing a single but otherwise running into no issues for his first save of the season. One down, 149 more to go.

· LF MJ Melendez: 0-3, BB, K

· CF Nick Morabito: 2-4, RBI, K

· SS Ronny Mauricio: 1-4, R, K, SB

· 1B Ryan Clifford: 1-4, 2 K, E

· 3B Christian Arroyo: 0-4, 2 K

· DH Jose Rojas: 1-4, R, HR, 2 RBI, K

· RF Cristian Pache: 0-4, 4 K

· 2B Jackson Cluff: 0-4, 3 K

· C Hayden Senger: 2-4, R, 2 K

· RHP Jonah Tong: 4.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K

· LHP Anderson Severino: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K

· RHP Austin Warren: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K