Spring Training Game Chat: Mets vs Astros, 6:05 PM
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 • 6:05 PM
CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches • West Palm Beach, FL
LHP David Peterson (1-1, 0.84) vs. RHP Ronel Blanco (1-1, 9.00)
There are only six games left in spring training! The Mets will play the Astros for the seventh and final time this evening as they take a night trip to West Palm Beach. In an interesting scheduling quirk, the Mets and Astros will face each other in the Opening Series of the regular season starting on 3/27. Since the Astros are an American League team, the Mets and Astros will not face each other again in 2025 unless both teams make the World Series. It’s mildly interesting that these two organizations get so familiar with each other due to their spring training proximity and then disappear from each other when the calendar flips to April.
Anyway, the Mets have about a week to finalize their 40-man roster and active roster. There was another round of cuts on Monday, with four more players being assigned to minor league camp. The only surprising move was Chris Williams. This leaves the backup catcher competition to Jakson Reetz or Hayden Senger (unless the Mets make another move while other teams start to cut players).
Photo by Ed Delany of Metsmerized
Mets Lineup
- Francisco Lindor – SS
- Juan Soto – RF
- Pete Alonso – 1B
- Mark Vientos – 3B
- Brandon Nimmo – LF
- Starling Marte – DH
- Luis Torrens – C
- Brett Baty – 2B
- Tyrone Taylor – CF
Opposing Lineup
- Jose Altuve – 2B
- Isaac Paredes – 3B
- Yordan Alvarez – DH
- Yainer Diaz – C
- Cam Smith – RF
- Jeremy Peña – SS
- Jon Singleton – 1B
- Brendan Rodgers – 2B
- Chas McCormick – CF
Game Notes
Kodai Senga will start on Thursday, and Clay Holmes will start on Friday. It looks like the Mets are looking to have Holmes and two of Tylor Megill, Griffin Canning and Paul Blackburn, start in the series against the extremely right-handed lineup of the Astros next week in the opening series.
LHP A.J. Minter, RHP Reed Garrett and RHP Edwin Díaz are scheduled to pitch after Peterson today.
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Three Things To Watch For
- The Lineup. Tonight’s lineup could be their Opening Day lineup. Jose Siri probably gets the start over Tyrone Taylor in center. The big story here is Brett Baty seems to be the Opening Day second basemen! The Mets bats are facing off against Ronel Blanco, who catapulted to fame after tossing a no-hitter in 8th career start. He’s battling right now for a spot in the back of the Astros rotation.
- David Peterson. Over three games and 10 2/3 innings, Peterson has a 0.84 ERA and 0.844 WHIP this spring. He’s scattered five hits and four walks while striking out eight batters. It looks like the Astros are running out their starting lineup (or something close to it), so this is an excellent opportunity for Peterson to test his stuff.
- Juan Soto. Do you know who has been having an excellent spring? Juan Soto. In 12 games, he has gone 10-for-28 with two doubles, four home runs, and seven runs scored. Surprisingly, four homers is good for 8th in the league as four players have already hit six home runs (two of them in significantly more games played) and another three players have already hit five.
Let’s go Mets!
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