The 2025 New York Mets season can be described as a roller coaster of highs and lows, but the 2025 season for the organization’s minor league affiliates was a bit more consistent.
Dick Scott led the Syracuse
Mets to a 77-73 record, going 31-44 record in the first half of the season and 46-29. Reid Brignac led the Binghamton Rumble Ponies to a 90-46 record, going 45-22 in the first half and 45-24 in the second half. Gilbert Gomez led the Brooklyn Cyclones to a 72-59 overall record, going 46-20 in the first half and 26-39 in the second half. Luis Rivera led the St. Lucie Mets to a 77-53 overall record, going 34-31 in the first half of the season and 43-22 in the second. All four teams ended the year with records over .500, with Syracuse’s first half and Brooklyn’s second half being the only outlier segments.
Detroit was the only organization better than the Mets this past season, in terms of wins and losses. The Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens went 84-66 on the season, the Double-A Erie SeaWolves went 84-54, the High-A West Michigan Whitecaps went 92-39, and the Single-A Lakeland Flying Tigers went 75-53, giving them 335 wins and 212 losses to the Mets’ 316 wins and 231 losses.
Binghamton, Brooklyn, and St. Lucie all made the Eastern League, South Atlantic League, and Florida State League playoffs, respectively, with Syracuse missing the International League Championship Series after ending the year 3.0 games behind the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. Binghamton won their championship series and were crowned Eastern League champions, Brooklyn won their championship series and were crowned South Atlantic League champions, and St. Lucie lost two games to one in the best-of-three division series against the Daytona Tortugas. It was the first time that the organization had two teams win championships in the same year in over 40 years, with the Tidewater Tides and the Jackson Mets being the last two teams to do so in 1985.
For most affiliates, their 2025 success marked a complete 180 as compared to 2024. In 2024, only Syracuse and Binghamton ended their seasons above .500, and barely, while Brooklyn was ended the season slightly below .500 and the St. Lucie Mets were a historically bad team, the worst in all of Minor League Baseball.
The 2025 season also marked the first time in over 25 years that a full-season affiliate reached the 90-win mark. Prior to Binghamton going 90-46, the last time a Mets team reached that plateau was the 1998 Capital City Bombers, who went 90-54. Binghamton outdid even that team of legend, with a .662 winning percentage to the Bombers’ .638 mark; the last time a team had a win-loss spread as good as Binghamton’s was back in 1986, when the Jackson Mets went 90-42, good for a .682 winning percentage.
Since Major League Baseball took over MiLB operations in 2020, the organization has not had a single season where all four full-season affiliates ended their respective seasons over .500. The last time all full-season affiliates had seasons over .500 came back in 2014, when the Las Vegas 51s went 81-63, the Binghamton Mets went 83-59, the St. Lucie Mets went 76-62, and the Savannah Sand Gnats went 85-51. That happened to be the second consecutive year that all four teams had records over .500, as they went 81-63, 86-55, 71-60, and 77-61, respectively. Likewise, 2014 was the last time that the organization had at least three of their four full-season teams make the postseason.
Back in 2014, the Amazin’ Avenue Top 25 Prospects list was as follows:
1. Noah Syndergaard, RHP
2. Travis d’Arnaud, C
3. Rafael Montero, RHP
4. Cesar Puello, OF
5. Wilmer Flores, IF
6. Dominic Smith, 1B
7. Brandon Nimmo, OF
8. Kevin Plawecki, C
9. Dilson Herrera, 2B
10. Steven Matz, LHP
11. Amed Rosario, SS
12. Gabriel Ynoa, RHP
13. Gavin Cecchini, SS
14. Michael Fulmer, RHP
15. Jacob deGrom, RHP
16. Domingo Tapia, RHP
17. Cory Mazzoni, RHP
18. Vic Black, RHP
19. Luis Cessa, RHP
20. Wilfredo Tovar, SS
21. Jeurys Familia, RHP
22. Jayce Boyd, 1B
23. Jack Leathersich, LHP
24. Robert Gsellman, RHP
25. Casey Meisner, RHP
Quite a number of players on that 2014 list would go on to eventually make the majors and a few even became key players for the Mets over the next few years, most notably Noah Syndergaard, Travis d’Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Brandon Nimmo, Steven Matz, Jacob deGrom, and Jeurys Familia. Here is hoping that some of the players on the 2025 Amazin Avenue’ Top 25 Prospect list who have already been called up or will likely be in the near future go on to have careers with the Mets like those above-mentioned players.
