After the first month of the season, three of the Mets four full season affiliates are over .500, and it is in large part due to some outstanding performances this month. Here are some of the more outstanding players in the Month of April:

Position Player of the Month – Quinn Brodey, OF

Affiliate: St. Lucie Mets
Stats: .319/.365/.418, 7 2B, 3B, 16 RBI, 3 SB

With the 2017 third round pick having a rough start to his career, he needed to come out of the gate swinging to prove he is the player the Mets believed him to be when they drafted him. Brodey has done that already amassing two three hit games and one four hit game. We have also seen him start to hit for some power with his seven doubles ranking third in the Florida State League.

What makes Brodey even more interesting right now is the team getting him a look at center field. Over the last four games, he has started in center field. Should he be able to stick there, and if he continues to develop his power, Brodey is going to have some breakout season. Given the Mets outfield depth, he will be in a position to rise fast through the farm system this year.

Honoroable Mention: Braxton Lee has a .846 OPS in Binghamton, and Jeremy Vasquez has a .430 OBP for St. Lucie.

Co-Pitcher of the Month – Anthony Kay, LHP

Affiliate: Binghamton Rumble Ponies
Stats: 1-2, 1.85 ERA, 0.986 WHIP, 4.1 BB/9, 10.7 K/9

The Mets long coveted Kay drafting him not just in 2013 but also in 2016. They also had to wait a year as he needed Tommy John surgery. As many will opine, pitchers are better their second year back from Tommy John, and Kay has so far proven that to be the case. In four of his five starts, he has allowed one earned run or fewer. In three of those starts, Kay allowed zero earned. He’s in the top ten in the Eastern League in ERA, strikeouts, and WHIP.

Kay’s real masterpiece was his April 22 start. In that game, he allowed just one hit over six scoreless innings. He would strike out 10 of the 22 batters he would face. It was the second time in his career he has struck out 10. Given how his curveball has gone from a question mark to a high spin pitch which is now arguably his best pitch, we may well see him have more games like this.

Co-Pitcher of the Month – Simeon Woods Richardson

Affiliate: Columbia Fireflies
Stats: 0-2, 1.23 ERA, 0.750 WHIP, 0.0 BB/9, 13.5 K/9

Last year, Woods Richardson was a high school pitcher who had uneven velocity, which some had attributed to his having a tonsillectomy during the season. In any event, in very short order, Woods Richardson has gone from pitching in high school to a full season affiliate. What is surprising is it is not he, but the batters who are over-matched.

In his 14.2 innings pitched, Woods Richardson has struck out 22 batters. In total, he is striking out 40.2 percent of the batters he has faced this year. That stat becomes all the more incredible when you consider he has not walked one batter this year. In each one of his starts, he has struck out more batters than innings pitched. That includes his striking out seven batters in three innings in his last start.

Honorable Mention: Drew Gagnon had a 0.51 ERA in three starts for Syracuse leading to him getting called up on two separate occasions to the Majors.

Reliever of the Month – Ryley Gilliam

Affilates: St. Lucie Mets & Binghamton Rumble Ponies
Stats: 0-0, 2.31 ERA, 2 SV, 0.857 WHIP, 1.5 BB/9, 14.7 K/9

When Gilliam was drafted last year, the predication wasn’t just that he would be the first member of that draft class to make the Majors for the Mets. Rather, it was predicted he could be one of the first players to crack the Majors from the 1,214 players drafted. So far, we are seeing the reason why people thought the would rise quickly through the Mets farm system.

Gilliam is showing off a mid 90s fastball with a spike curve. Between his repertoire and how he hides the ball in his delivery, he is not just hard to hit, but he’s also hard to pick up. He’s struck out more than one batter in seven of his eight appearances. Opposing batters are hitting just .186/.222/.256 off of him.

As impressive as that all is, what is really impressive is his improvement. Coming out of the draft, he was prone to fits of wildness, and it was an issue last year with him walking 13 batters in 17.1 innings for Brooklyn last year. His control is much improved to the point where he has walked just two batters this year. It is his control as much as the strikeouts which led to his promotion to Binghamton.

In his first appearance for Binghamton, he struck out the side.

Honoroable Mention: Steve Villines has three saves, and he has yet to allow an earned run in six appearances for Binghamton while striking out 10.4 per nine.