{"id":172500,"date":"2025-08-24T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172500\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:57:08","slug":"mets-notes-tong-duran-siri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172500\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Notes: Tong, Duran, Siri"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is some feeling within the Mets organization that right-handed pitching prospect Jonah Tong<\/a><\/strong> could make his MLB debut before the 2025 season is up, Mike Puma of the New York Post<\/a> reports.\u00a0 Tong only just made his debut with Triple-A Syracuse on August 16 and hadn\u2019t been projected as \u201ca consideration for the Major League roster this year,\u201d Puma writes, but \u201cthat stance has changed in recent days.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shift is due to both the Mets\u2019 rotation needs, and Tong\u2019s continued excellence in his third pro season.\u00a0 A seventh-round pick for New York in the 2022 draft, Tong has emerged as a top-100 prospect \u2014 Baseball America has the right-hander 42nd on their midseason top 100 list, and MLB Pipeline has Tong in their 44nd spot.\u00a0 It is easy to see why, as Tong has an absurd 1.43 ERA and 40.5% strikeout rate over 113 2\/3 combined innings at the Double-A and Triple-A levels in 2025.\u00a0 That includes 11 2\/3 scoreless innings during his brief time in Syracuse.<\/p>\n

Naturally there\u2019s some risk in bringing the 22-year-old up to the Show in such relatively rapid fashion, and Tong\u2019s 10.6% walk rate stands out as a potential weakness to be exploited by big league hitters.\u00a0 That said, Tong\u2019s unusual delivery could also leave some hitters baffled, not to mention his plus fastball that has a ton of break if relatively little velocity (in the 91-94mph range).<\/p>\n

Promoting Tong doesn\u2019t necessarily mean he\u2019d be in the majors for the rest of the season, of course, as the Mets could potentially use him for a spot start during a crowded stretch of the schedule.\u00a0 New York is six games into a stretch of 26 games in 27 days, with September 4 as the only off-day during that stretch.\u00a0 This puts even more pressure on a rotation that hasn\u2019t provided much in the way of length or results lately, and the Mets already turned to another rookie in Nolan McLean<\/a><\/strong> to take Frankie Montas<\/a><\/strong>\u2019 rotation spot earlier this month.<\/p>\n

At this point it wouldn\u2019t be a shock to see McLean, Tong, and another top prospect in Brandon Sproat<\/a><\/strong> all get onto the mound before the Mets\u2019 season is over.\u00a0 This need for help from the farm (in addition to any club\u2019s natural reticence about moving top prospects) may have been a reason why the Amazins didn\u2019t make much progress in trade talks with the Twins about Jhoan Duran<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Mets were loosely linked<\/a> to Duran\u2019s market just prior to the trade deadline, and the New York Post\u2019s Jon Heyman<\/a> reported that the Mets weren\u2019t willing to move any of McLean, Tong, Sproat, Jett Williams<\/a><\/strong>, or Carson Benge<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 This quintet are the consensus top prospects within New York\u2019s farm system, and Baseball America has all five players within their league-wide top-100 prospects list.\u00a0 Minnesota was known to be seeking at least one top-100 type for Duran\u2019s services, and found such an offer from another NL East club in the Phillies, who landed<\/a> Duran for Eduardo Tait<\/a><\/strong> and Mick Abel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Duran has looked excellent in Philadelphia, while the Mets have gotten mixed result from their deadline bullpen acquisitions.\u00a0 Tyler Rogers<\/a><\/strong> and Gregory Soto<\/a><\/strong> have both pitched well since coming to Queens, but Ryan Helsley<\/a><\/strong> has struggled badly.\u00a0 Shaky pitching on both the bullpen and rotation has contributed to the Mets\u2019 7-13 record in August, and the Phillies have pulled out to a six-game lead over New York in the NL East.<\/p>\n

In other Mets news, manager Carlos Mendoza told reporters (including MLB.com\u2019s Anthony DiComo<\/a>) on Wednesday that Jose Siri<\/a><\/strong> is expected to start a minor league rehab assignment this week.\u00a0 Siri fractured his left tibia after fouling a ball off his leg back in April, and what was expected to be an absence of 8-10 weeks has now lasted well over four months.\u00a0 Since he played in only 10 games with the Mets before the injury, Siri figures to need at least a week of minor league action to get fully ramped up for a return to the active roster.<\/p>\n

This makes him a candidate for an IL activation once rosters expand on September 1, though Siri will be returning to a more crowded outfield picture.\u00a0 New York went into the season planning to use Siri and Tyrone Taylor<\/a><\/strong> in a center field timeshare, but the deadline acquisition of Cedric Mullins<\/a><\/strong> has now created a more traditional lefty-righty platoon up the middle with Taylor.\u00a0 A player with Siri\u2019s elite glove always has value on a roster, of course, so the Mets could use him as something of a defensive specialist if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is some feeling within the Mets organization that right-handed pitching prospect Jonah Tong could make his MLB…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[98412,98413,98414,45009,98415,98416,85371,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-172500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brandon-sproat","9":"tag-carson-benge","10":"tag-jett-williams","11":"tag-jhoan-duran","12":"tag-jonah-tong","13":"tag-jose-siri","14":"tag-nolan-mclean","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115085511548464352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}