The Mets needed an ace, but it wasn’t cheap.
The Amazin’s, who acquired right-handed starter Freddy Peralta and 27-year-old reliever Tobias Myers from the Brewers, had to ship top prospects Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams to Milwaukee in the Wednesday night deal.
Sproat and Williams were two of six prospects the Mets had Baseball America’s Top 100 Prospects List in sports, which was released Wednesday.
The 25-year-old Sproat – the 81st prospect on Baseball America’s list – was part of the Mets’ young pitching brigade, along with Nolan McLean (No. 8) and Jonah Tong (No. 44), drafted in the second half of last season in hopes of giving the team an edge in its push for the playoffs.
Sproat had a 4.79 ERA with 17 strikeouts in 20 ⅔ innings across those four MLB starts, after posting a 4.24 ERA in 26 Triple-A appearances.
But the Mets didn’t have to give up McLean, a 2023 third-round pick who is expected to have a spot high in the rotation this season.
McLean made eight Major League starts last season, going 5-1 and posting an impressive 2.06 ERA. He also recorded 57 strikeouts in 48 innings, while showing a fastball in the upper 90s along with a diverse pitching arsenal.
The Mets also moved on from Williams, a 22-year-old first-round pick in 2022, a center and center fielder.
He hit .261 with an .828 OPS, 17 homers, 52 RBIs and 34 steals in 130 games in Double-A and Triple-A in 2025 and worked to get a call to the big club.
But when the Mets acquired Luis Robert Jr., an elite center field defenseman, in a trade with the White Sox on Tuesday night, Williams became more expendable.
Carson Benge at No. 19 and outfielder/second baseman AJ Ewing at No. 83 are the other two Mets prospects in the Top 100.
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