10:21pm: New York is indeed calling Ross up, reports Will Sammon of The Athletic. They already have three open spots on the 40-man but will need to make an active roster move. Huascar Brazobán and Kevin Herget are the two pitchers in the MLB bullpen who have options remaining. They each pitched an inning of mop-up work in tonight’s 6-2 loss in Miami, so one of them will probably be sent out.
11:43am: The Mets are mulling a promotion for pitching prospect Dylan Ross and could bring him up for his big league debut as soon as tomorrow, Mika Puma of the New York Post reports. SNY’s Andy Martino reported last week that Ross was in consideration for a big league look before season’s end.
The 25-year-old Ross was New York’s 13th-round pick in 2022. He’s elevated his prospect status considerably in 2025 with a dominant showing out of the bullpen across three minor league levels. The former Georgia Bulldog has tossed a combined 54 innings with a 2.17 ERA — including a 1.69 mark in 32 frames at the Triple-A level. Ross has fanned just under 36% of his opponents this season and kept nearly 55% of the batted balls against him on the ground. Command, or lack thereof, is his most notable flaw. He’s walked an ugly 14.7% of his opponents (17.3% in Triple-A).
Listed at 6’5″ and 251 pounds, Ross is a prototypical flamethrowing reliever. He’s averaged 96.8 mph on his four-seamer this season and can run the pitch up into triple digits. He complements that fiery heater with a splitter and cutter that both sit just under 90 mph, a slider that sits 87.5 mph and a seldom-used curveball in the low-80s. MLB.com ranks Ross 20th among Mets farmhands.
Ross underwent Tommy John surgery during his draft season at Georgia and needed a revision of that procedure in 2023. He only pitched one inning in the minors in 2024 and has all of 55 professional innings under his belt to date. However, due to his status as a college draftee who’s now been in professional ball for three full seasons, he’d be eligible for selection in the Rule 5 Draft this winter. Given his outstanding season in the minors and the power nature of his repertoire, it’s likely the Mets would add him to the 40-man roster in November to protect him from being selected anyhow — which only strengthens his case for a call to the majors late in the season.
New York’s bullpen has slipped over the past couple months. Mets relievers have a combined 4.18 ERA since the trade deadline, ranking 18th in the majors. Edwin Diaz, Tyler Rogers and Brooks Raley have all been excellent, but the acquisition of Ryan Helsley (7.58 ERA as a Met) has backfired and Ryne Stanek (7.50 ERA since Aug. 1) has struggled considerably. The Mets lost lefties A.J. Minter and Danny Young to lat surgery and Tommy John surgery, respectively, back in May. Setup man Reed Garrett was recommended for Tommy John surgery earlier this month.
That string of struggles and injuries has created plenty of uncertainty in the bullpen. There’d obviously be risk in carrying a 25-year-old rookie with subpar command on the team’s postseason roster — should they qualify — but the many of the more veteran options currently in the mix don’t exactly ooze confidence at the moment themselves.
That sounds like a team ready for the postseason
Reds and DBacks collapsed, allowing the Mets to play October baseball. Luck on their side. Go, Beat LA in the first round!!!
“Reds and Dbacks collapsed”…From here on out when you look up the term “backing into the playoffs”, there will be a picture of the New York Mets and their team mascot.
NYM does not hold tie-breakers over Cincy or Ariz. One loss in Miami this weekend could lead to NYM missing the postseason. That would be the ultimate in LOLmets.
And it’s likely to happen. Mets have been in a slow collapse since the all star break
Here’s the number: 3.61
No, it’s not the Mets pitching stafff ERA.
It’s how many times over the average 13 active pitxhers on a pitching staff that Mendoza, Hefner and Stearns have let pitch this season if Ross gets to throw a pitch this ssason.
Let’s see what the 47th pitcher this season has in his repetoire. How can it hurt? It is very near a lost season.
Joke after joke after joke, but 47 pitchers divided by 13 = 3.61.
Injuries aside, the Mets are the textbook example of HOW NOT to manage a pitching major league pitching staff !!!!
Utter Incompetence!
And let’s not forget Wander Suero, who after two scoreless innings at Syracuse got called up …… but never got in a game.
The forgotten pitcher of 2025, though he got to collect some MLB days and pay becaise the imcompetent Trio couldn’t figuee out what to do with him !
Injuries aside? That’s all they’ve had are injuries. Without the injuries I think they may have had enough wins to not sweat out a wild card spot.
Don’t insult my intelligence defending Tyler Zuber or Zach Pop or Jose Urena or Alex Carrillo or Colin Poche or Richard Lovelady or Ty Adcock or Genesis Cabrera or Paul bLackburn or even Frankie Montas who was such a bust this year amd never should have been signed.
There are others. The fact that Luis Torrens and Jared Young and Travis Jankowski are on that list of 48 MEANS that Mendoza and Hefner TOTALLY mismanaged the pitching staff in three losses.
Listen, this kid Ross will be here on a make or break chance. It’s all about the strikeouts and peripherals and pitching BS that leaves just about every UCL on the staff SCREAMING to be taken out.
Instead of pitching ( not just throwing) and bouncing Devenski and Herget and Waddell up and down and off the 40 man because they ONLY get guys out without obliterating the radar gun is just sad
LOLMETS
Oh I wouldn’t underestimate the Mets ability to still collapse.
Mets get in the playoffs they are most definitely going to beat the Dodgers. Their offense is just too good for the Dodgers awful bullpen and pitching fine for a two game sweep.
They will get shutdown by the dodgers starting rotation & the guys who will be coming out of the pen who were in the rotation
Why do I think the Mets would face the Padres before the Dodgers? Last I checked, Yu Darvish owns the Mets. Im not even sure they get past the Padres.
San Diego plays the Cubs in the wild card round. Dodgers host Arizona, Cincinnati, or NYM.
Funny!
Mets fans have accepted their teams’ fate, but the organization still believes there is a chance for this season
There is. Get in, and the season doesn’t matter. Playoffs is a fresh start.
Except your still coached by Mendoza and your pitching is still the worst in the league
didnt that same coach make it to NLCS as a rookie coach during a rebuilding / “competitive” year? Not too many of those i think.
They were the best team in baseball for the first third (?) of the season. You can’t blame him for later collapse without crediting him for the early success.
Coach? This isn’t football.
This is some sad sad stuff.
The Mets are promoting anything that’s not tied down. My chance is surely coming soon.
who is going to start if not this guy?
Do teams that win 82 plus ganes derserve to play playoff baseball, not for me.
Only two teams have more than 91 wins in the entire league with only three games left to play. There’s a lot of parity this year. It’s pretty remarkable. I’m sure MLB loves it because it’s led to some tight finishes.
I agree with you in principal but, it is what it is. Its not the first time and it won’t be the last. Even before the wild card existed, there were teams that won their division with a shade over .500 winning percentages. It happens in other sports, so why not baseball?
Consider this: two teams play the exact same schedule for 9 games. One goes 5-4, and the other goes 4-5. If they do that all season long, the 5-4 team finishes with 90 wins and cruises into the playoffs. The 4-5 team finishes with 72 wins and finishes in or near the bottom of their division. Thats how small the margin is between clear success and abject failure in a 162-game season.
Well, the team that did it the year I was born made it to the World Series and dropped game 7 to Reggie Jackson’s A’s the day I was born.
Welcome to playoffs expansion and even further when two more expansion teams arrive.
This year is just attrition. Nothing more. Not very good baseball. You could have an entire postseason out of injured players. Ugly stuff.
Having watched many ballgames this year. I would have to agree with you Hayzee.
“This year is just attrition”….I agree. The level of play has dropped quite a bit in the last few years. Guys drafted ten minutes ago, are already starting All Star games. No more 5+ years of minor league “seasoning” before your debut.
The regular season will soon be forecast and predicted by A.I and StatCast and will no longer actually be played. Only the postseason and it’s huge revenues will actually be played on the field.
Actually, I’m hoping baseball can figure out a way to keep the players on the field. Then we can see the great game the way it is meant to be played.
Call him up. Can’t hurt to see what the kid can do.
Jonah Tong is clearly not ready
I’d rather see Ross over Stanek, I’m tired of seeing Stanek blow games
Stearns’ ability to make moves that are too little, too bloody late continues to astound.
I’ll bet he thinks this is risky—whereas he let Ryan Helsley sink the Mets postseason chances all by himself.
Hello JackStrawb,
Nice to see you! Soon Mets fans will be put out of their misery for this Season. Unfortunately not even Diana Ross can save them now.
Lol Mets
Not even with Supremes in the outfield and Marvin Gaye behind the plate.
It’s worth noting the Garrett has been horrible since June and Danny Young was never good. The bullpen is bad because Stearns doesn’t know how to build one. You’d think a guy who didn’t little to address the rotation would stock the bullpen with guys better than retreads or minor leaguers. Minter was the only guy he got and that was a dud. All his rotations addition attempts have failed.
Manaea was a good find last year. Unfortunately, someone with some former ties to the A’s organization pushed Montas and Blackburn for the Mets this year.
Shame on the Mets for listening.
@Carlos15 other then me, you might be the smartest Mets fan on the site. I agree with 100% of everything that you said