Mark Vientos, Photos by Peter McClelland

Earlier this week, Baseball America released their top 100 prospects for 2022. While the Mets placed three names on the official list in Francisco Alvarez, Brett Baty and Ronny Mauricio, they added a couple of more when Baseball America put out a hypothetical stretch of their original list to 115 total names.

The 22-year-old Mark Vientos, who spent most of his breakout season with the bat at double-A Binghamton in 2021, has been somewhat surprisingly left off of a couple of national top 100 lists. Baseball America did not have Vientos totally go unnoticed though, after he put up some of the best isolated power (.ISO of .299 at Binghamton) in the minor leagues last season. With a wRC+ of 144 at the level, Vientos put him name amongst the best hitters in the minor leagues.

While 2019 Mets draft pick Matt Allan also placed among the names that just missed the top 100, he did not do it on the backs of a 2021 season. This was to no fault of his own however, as Allan lost his entire 2021 season to Tommy John surgery in May and the ensuing recovery period. For Allan to still garner honorable mention shows just how much excitement he was garnering before his elbow ligament blew out.

Armed with a high-spin fastball that was touching 98 mph in the spring and a power curveball that showed great depth and shape, Allan will look to get back on the mound sometime this summer and continue his re-ascent back up prospect lists and into the focus of the Mets future plans. Allan’s upside on the mound remains the best in the organization in the minor league ranks.

With 5 prospects among Baseball America’s top 115, and a huge 2022 draft ahead of them, the Mets could soon be looking at a top echelon of their farm system that places among the best in the game.