Mets Rumors: Brett Baty to Be Called Up; Ranked as NYM's No. 2 Prospect for 2023

The New York Mets are calling up Brett Baty, one of the top prospects in their minor league organization, according to SNY's Andy Martino.

MLB.com ranks Baty second behind in Francisco Álvarez in New York's farm system. Álvarez earned a promotion a little over a week ago after Omar Narváez went on the injured list.

Baty made his MLB debut last August and appeared in 11 games for the Mets. During his brief time in the bigs, he had a .586 OPS and a 67 OPS+, per Baseball Reference.

The 23-year-old has logged just 68 plate appearances in Triple-A to this point, but his performance for the Syracuse Mets only heightened the anticipation for his inevitable call-up. He hit five homers and drove in 15 runs over nine games.

Across his minor league career, Baty owns a .293/.394/.508 slash line and has 43 home runs in 246 games. There wasn't much more he had left to prove in terms of his MLB readiness.

For New York, Eduardo Escobar's performance at the plate might have accelerated any internal timelines for Baty. The 34-year-old is batting .114 with a wRC+ of 7 through 13 appearances, per FanGraphs.

Escobar probably won't hit this poorly all year. His production is such a massive outlier, and he was slumping early into the 2022 season before slugging .497 over the second half of the year.

But the Mets' sky-high expectations and Baty's red-hot start mean the team may not show a ton of patience with Escobar at the hot corner. Baty will be on the active roster for Monday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, so a change to the lineup could come in short order.