Mets Daily Prospect Report, 8/21/25:

Triple-A: Syracuse Mets (31-44/31-16)

INDIANAPOLIS 6, SYRACUSE 0 (BOX)

This was just an all around bad game for Syracuse, who have been playing some excellent baseball in the second half of the season.

Brandon Waddell gave up six runs, five of them earned, in 3.2 innings. Offensively, they managed just three singles, and two of them were wiped away with a double play by the next batter. Overall, it was a game to just throw away in the trash.

SS Jett Williams: 0-4, K, E (1)
2B Luisangel Acuña: 0-3, K
PR-2B Luis De Los Santos: 0-1, K
CF José Azocar: 0-3
RF Ryan Clifford: 0-3, K
LF Jared Young: 1-3
1B Joey Meneses: 0-3
DH Luke Ritter: 0-3, K
3B Yonny Hernández: 2-3, K
C Matt O’Neill: 0-3, 2 K
LHP Brandon Waddell: 3.2 IP, 4 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 4 K, 1 HBP, L (2-7)
RHP Douglas Orellana: 2.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 1 WP
RHP Huascar Brazobán: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 WP
RHP Dylan Ross: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K

Double-A: Binghamton Rumble Ponies **(45-22*/31-16)**

BINGHAMTON 4, PORTLAND 1 (BOX)

The first seven games of this game were a good, old fashioned, pitching

duel. R.J. Gordon and John Holobetz traded zeroes for the first six frames, with first blood being drawn by the Rumble Ponies and Jacob Reimer. The breakout prospect hit his 7th home run at the level and 15th home run on the season, taking Holobetz deep in the seventh.

The Ponies broke it open in the eighth, scoring three runs off the Sea Dogs bullpen. A.J. Ewing opened the scoring in the inning with a double, Nick Morabito singled him home, and Reimer was hit with the bases loaded to make it 4-0.

That lead held until the ninth inning, where Portland scratched a run across in the frame, but overall were in too big of a hole to come out of.

LF A.J. Ewing: 2-5, R, 2 2B, RBI
1B Chris Suero: 0-3, BB, 2 K
CF Nick Morabito: 2-4, RBI, SB (37)
DH Jacob Reimer: 1-2, R, HR (7), 2 RBI, BB
RF D’Andre Smith: 1-4, K
C Kevin Parada: 1-4, K
3B Nick Lorusso: 1-4
SS William Lugo: 0-2, R, 2 BB, K
2B Wyatt Young: 0-3, R, BB
RHP R.J. Gordon: 7.0 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, W (4-0)
RHP Joshua Cornielly: 1.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
RHP TJ Shook: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, S (5)

High-A: Brooklyn Cyclones **(46-20*/21-29)**

ABERDEEN 7, BROOKLNY 6 (BOX)

The Brooklyn Cyclones took a page out of the August 2025 New York Mets playbook, as they ran out to a lead and saw their bullpen unable to get the job done. Eli Serrano got them off to a 1-0 lead with an RBI ground out in the second, though they gave it back and then some in the bottom of the frame, giving up two runs.

Their big inning offensively came in the third, where they put four on the board. Trace Willhoite tied the game with a solo homer, Vincent Perozo chased a run home with an RBI ground out, and Diego Mosquera capped it off with a two run single. Marco Vargas singled their sixth run of the game home in the sixth inning, making it a 6-2 lead going into the bottom of the frame.

That is where it all fell apart.

The IronBirds scored one in the bottom of the sixth, and tagged the Brooklyn bullpen for four in the seventh to take a 7-6 lead. The Cyclones went down 1-2-3-4-5-6 in the eighth and ninth to secure the defeat.

SS Marco Vargas: 1-4, RBI, BB
CF Eli Serrano III: 1-5, RBI, 2 K, E (5)
1B Trace Willhoite: 1-3, R, HR (2), RBI, BB, 2 K
3B Colin Houck: 1-4, 2 K
DH Ronald Hernandez: 1-3, R, 2B, BB, K
RF Yohairo Cuevas: 0-3, R, BB, 2 K
LF Troy Schreffler Jr.: 1-3, 2 R, BB, K
C Vincent Perozo: 1-4, RBI
2B Diego Mosquera: 2-4, R, 2B, 2 RBI, K
LHP Franklin Gomez: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K, 1 WP, 1 HBP, E (1)
LHP Eli Ankeney: 1.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
RHP Cristofer Gomez: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, H (1), L (0-2)
RHP Hunter Hodges: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K, BS (1)

Single-A: St. Lucie Mets **(34-31*/34-16)**

PALM BEACH 11, ST. LUCIE 9 (BOX)

This game is a tale of two halves, with St. Lucie dominating the early portion of the game, only to blow a rather large lead.

Through the top of the fifth inning, St. Lucie led 7-1. Solo home runs by Yonatan Henriquez and John Bay got them started in the second, and they looked good from there. Bay added two more with a two run single, AJ Salgado added one with a sacrifice fly, and Daiverson Gutierrez capped it off with a two run single of his own.

So, they took a 7-1 lead into the bottom of the fifth, and it fell apart from there.

Palm Beach scored one in the fifth, two in the sixth, and one in the seventh to get back into the game, making it 7-5. John Bay, who had a pristine performance on the day (4-4, 5 RBI), drove in two more in the eighth, pushing the lead back up to 9-5.

The bottom of the ninth was not what you want, if you are reading this minor league report. Christian Rodriguez came on to finish the game off and did not, surrendering four runs in the frame to push the game into extras. St. Lucie did not score in the top of the tenth, and Yuhi Sako surrendered a walk off two run homer to finish off the implosion.