6 NY Mets players on the Opening Day roster most likely to be gone by May 1
Crumbl, a chain of cookie shops, does this brilliant thing where every month they have five or six flavors and change it out when the calendar flips. The genius behind it is you fall in love with a flavor but you have to come back in the future to experience other ones. A baseball roster is kind of like this. Although we see who the starting 26 players on the New York Mets will be to open the season, things are going to change. Red velvet flavor will be replaced by the waffle one that comes with a giant thing of syrup just to ensure the blood sugar is awake.
These six players all made the cut for the Mets this season and yet their roster spots are far from safe. Fast-forwarding just one month and a few days into the future, we should consider them all on the bubble to be replaced for one reason or another.
Crumbl, a chain of cookie shops, does this brilliant thing where every month they have five or six flavors and change it out when the calendar flips. The genius behind it is you fall in love with a flavor but you have to come back in the future to experience other ones. A baseball roster is kind of like this. Although we see who the starting 26 players on the New York Mets will be to open the season, things are going to change. Red velvet flavor will be replaced by the waffle one that comes with a giant thing of syrup just to ensure the blood sugar is awake.
These six players all made the cut for the Mets this season and yet their roster spots are far from safe. Fast-forwarding just one month and a few days into the future, we should consider them all on the bubble to be replaced for one reason or another.
1) Danny Young
Throwing left-handed might not be enough to help Danny Young survive the full season with the Mets. Although the second of only two southpaws in the bullpen, his lack of minor league options stands in the way of him staying with the Mets for the long haul. They decided to keep him in part because of how nobody stole the job from him outright in spring training. Genesis Cabrera was weaker. Anthony Gose doesn’t have consistent enough big league results to push Young aside based on only a handful of exhibition innings.
Young showed a lot of guts at times in 2024 as a member of the Mets bullpen. Their on-the-fly solution post-Jake Diekman, his 4.54 ERA doesn’t fairly represent how his year went.
In July and August, Young was amazing. 6.2 scoreless innings in July followed up with a 2.45 ERA performance in August helped carry the Mets. More than a strikeout per inning in each of those months with batting averages against him of .160 and then .158, Young became one of those guys we talked about as an offseason steal by David Stearns. He was originally signed to a minor league deal. In a season where many of those under-the-radar additions paid off huge, he was inching toward becoming one of the more noteworthy.
A dreadful September and a complete lack of purpose in the postseason had many questioning if Young would be back for 2025. He is, at least for now. We saw Stearns pull the trigger quickly on underperforming players throughout last year. There isn’t an eczema cream known to man to make that trigger finger less itchy or else my rashy skin would know about it.
