(Ed Delany/Mets Minors)

The Mets announced Monday that they sent right-handed pitcher Neraldo Catalina to the Tampa Bay Rays as the player to be named from last week’s Wilmer Font deal.

Catalina, 18, has yet to appear in a professional game where they count stats and publicly post them online. He was signed as an international free agent on July 2, 2018, but while those players usually spend a year or two in the Dominican Summer League, Catalina was invited to extended spring training in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and was lined up to begin his career in the Gulf Coast League.

The native of the Dominican Republic earned himself a $150,000 bonus thanks to a mid-90s fastball and a potentially plus slider. Here’s what Baseball America wrote earlier this year:

His fastball plays up beyond the pure velocity, getting on hitters quickly with good extension out front in his delivery. Catalina complements his fastball with a power slider as well.

That’s what 6 feet 6 inches and 200 pounds will do for you.

We’ll see where Catalina’s career goes from here; there are obviously a hundred different outcomes, from major league all-star to a guy who fizzles out in Double-A. Maybe he never even gets to that point. Still, you rarely see these types of players included in trades (let alone a one-for-one swap for a major leaguer), but the Mets have now dealt two in a matter of months in Catalina and Felix Valerio, one of the pieces sent to Milwaukee in the Keon Broxton trade.