Five Mets Make FanGraphs’ Top-100 Prospects List
FanGraphs released their annual top-100 prospects list, and five Mets made their initial ranking for 2026. Overall, five Mets placed in their initial top-100 ranking, ranging from the very front end of the rankings to the final handful of spots. Multiple prospects the Mets recently traded away made the list, showing the depth of the Mets’ farm system and their success in minor league development.
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Led by Nolan McLean, three Mets starters and two bats made the rankings. A ranking of number three overall is the highest that McLean has received so far, and makes him their top-ranked pitching prospect in baseball. The rankings argue that “there’s a lot of runway left to develop his command, find another inch or two of vertical break on the four-seamer, refine his changeup, find more ways to sequence”. McLean is the only starter that the publication ranked with a future value (FV) of 65 or higher. He maintained his rookie and prospect status entering the 2026 season despite being the Mets’ best starter down the stretch.
Behind him came Carson Benge, who ranked 21st overall. Benge shot through the Mets’ minor league system in 2025, ending the season in Syracuse with the Triple-A lineup. Mets’ brass has said time and time again this winter that Benge will have a legitimate chance to crack the Major League roster, and his arrival at camp in January shows how seriously he is taking his chance. Overall, he posted a 150 wRC+ through three levels of minor league baseball last year.
Jonah Tong‘s No. 58 ranking is low compared to other rankings he received in the fall and early winter, but his lack of success after being promoted in September likely attributed to that. The range of outcomes that Tong has could scare some off, which is articulated in the rankings: “Tong is a great athlete with a plus fastball-changeup mix. A complicated delivery and iffy breaking ball projection cloud his long-term projection.” They rated his fastball as a 70-grade pitch, his change a 55-grade pitch, but no other pitch of his carries an FV of over 45. He posted a 7.71 ERA in his brief Major League stint in September.
Righty starter Jack Wenninger was shown some love in the back end of their top-100 rankings, coming in at 79th overall. They attribute his rise in the rankings to finding more velocity last year. The Mets took him in the eighth round of the 2023 draft out of Illinois, and it took him until the midpoint of the 2024 season to find his footing. He has become a fairly significant developmental win for the organization.
The last Met to crack the ranking was Jacob Reimer, who was the second prep bat the Mets took after drafting Jett Williams in 2022. The corner infielder mashed Double-A pitching this summer to the tune of a .479 slugging percentage. Overall, he posted a .870 OPS with 17 homers between Brooklyn and Binghamton. His positionality remains a question in the future, but his bat is clearly translating to the higher levels of minor league pitching.
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