When the Mets sent prospects Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat to the Brewers ahead of the 2026 season, Freddy Peralta was undoubtedly the headliner of the package they got in return. With Peralta heading for free agency after the season, though, conventional wisdom at the time of the trade was that the Mets did well to get then-27-year-old Tobias Myers from Milwaukee alongside Peralta, as he’d been quite good in his time in the big leagues and was under team control for several years to come.
Peralta’s
struggles with the Mets were far more noticeable given his prominent role in the rotation, but coming off two seasons in Milwaukee that saw him put together a 3.15 ERA and a 3.92 FIP across his time working as a starter and a reliever, Myers was quite disappointing this year, too.
In just 53.2 innings at the major league level with the Mets this season, Myers had a 5.53 ERA and a 4.65 FIP, both of which were the worst single-season marks of his relatively young major league career by wide margins. And the Mets’ handling of Myers, who was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse in late May and spent the rest of the season bouncing between Syracuse and Queens, probably didn’t help him very much.
While the expectation that Peralta would be the team’s ace based on his 2025 ERA always seemed a bit foolish, it is concerning that both pitchers who fared well over the course of multiple seasons in Milwaukee took such significant steps in the wrong direction upon joining the Mets.
As for Myers, well, he’s still under team control through the end of the 2030 season, but the Mets used his final option year this year, which means he’d have to be designated for assignment to be removed from the 40-man roster in 2027, assuming there’s a season. Given that reality, Myers seems to be a lock for the team’s Opening Day roster, barring the acquisition of a slew of relievers that pushes him so far down the depth chart that the Mets would either look to trade him or risk losing him on waivers.
All of that seems pretty unlikely given the players who are in the organization at the moment. It would behoove the Mets to figure out what went wrong for Myers this year, though, and maybe he’ll just fare better without having to worry about getting sent to the minors at the first sign of trouble or whenever it’s convenient for the Mets’ never-ending desire to churn the last couple bullpen spots of their roster.
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