Is this the Brett Baty Breakout?

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  • By Nathan Baker

    Last Updated on May 30, 2025 6:43 am by Anthony Kates | Published: May 30, 2025

    Young players all develop at a different pace and trajectory, and it’s not uncommon for a minor- league demotion to jumpstart the development of a stagnating prospect. In the case of Brett Baty, a consistently excellent performer at all levels of the minor leagues, his limited major league time across three seasons failed to replicate the success he experienced at lower levels. Injuries never helped, and Baty experienced more than his fair share in each of the last three years, but the offensive production in his healthy times did not match the expectations.

    His .631 career MLB OPS was a long way off his .889 OPS in the minors, and with a significantly worse strikeout to walk ratio along with reduced exit velocities, there wasn’t much of his offensive game translating to big league play. His defense wasn’t exactly playing well either, with average defensive metrics across the board at third base, furthering the doubts about his eventual value. Through the prior three seasons, Baty had been sent up and down, platooned, given limited chances to play every day, and hit the injured list on multiple occasions; he was never afforded any stability at the big league level for a sustained period of time.

    After a tremendous spring training in 2025, Baty made the Mets to start this season, primarily as the strong side of a second base platoon with Luisangel Acuña. As the weeks progressed, Baty lost more and more playing time to Acuña, who won the NL rookie of the month award in April, with Baty ultimately getting sent down to Triple-A on April 24th. Despite homering off Zack Wheeler the day prior, the overall picture from his previous 18 games in 2025 was bleak, hitting .192 with a .525 OPS, 48 wRC+, 32.1% K rate and no home runs.

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    May 30, 2025, 6:43 am