Mets stud prospect Brett Baty hits two homers in first two innings

The Mets’ excessive prospects proceed to positioned on a gift. 

Merely in some unspecified time in the future after Francisco Alvarez — the group’s and MLB’s top-ranked prospect — clubbed a home run out of the stadium with the Syracuse Mets, No. 2 prospect Brett Baty equipped his private highlight reel. 

Brett Baty launched two residence runs inside the first two innings. Screengrab/Binghamton Rumble Ponies

Baty crushed two residence runs inside the first three innings for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies on the Somerset Patriots on Thursday evening time. The rout reached 10-1 sooner than the game was suspended inside the excessive of the third inning as a result of inclement local weather. It will be concluded Friday as part of a doubleheader. 

Baty, the Mets’ first-round resolve inside the 2019 MLB Draft, opened the scoring inside the first inning with a two-run homer to right-center topic. He adopted that up merely an inning later with one different two-run blast, extending Binghamton’s lead to 7-1. This time, he picked out left-center topic, putting his full-field vitality on present. 

Baty — who’s primarily a third baseman, nonetheless has carried out video video games in left topic and at DH — entered the evening time with a slash line of .304/.396/.518 in 85 video video games with the Double-A affiliate. He had a 15-game hitting streak earlier inside the season. 

Baty, along with Alvarez, Ronny Mauricio, Alex Ramirez and Mark Vientos, are all performing correctly as part of a extraordinarily ranked prospect core inside the Mets’ group. The Mets had been seemingly unwilling to half with any of them to make a a lot larger splash on the commerce deadline. 

A star at Lake Travis Extreme Faculty in Austin, Texas, Baty went straight to the draft and was chosen with the No. 12 resolve. He’s in the mean time ranked as a result of the No. 12 prospect in all of MLB.