NY Mets News: Untouchable Luke Weaver, Juan Soto’s new bat, revived Sean Manaea

The New York Mets picked up where they needed to leave off by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 6-4 in their first of three. The two teams have off on Friday to make room for a parking lot of soccer fans as the World Cup continues on across North America, Philly hosting a game at Lincoln Financial Field. 

Your Friday will be free of new Mets baseball, but not necessarily news about the team. Rehab is starting for Francisco Lindor and Tyone Taylor. Another pair of games over the weekend against the Phillies could have our emotions tugging in one extreme or the other. Don’t forget, Sunday’s game is the late one.

Luke Weaver is untouchable right now, what does it mean for his future?

The hottest arm on the Mets staff belongs to Luke Weaver. He now has 20 scoreless innings in a row. You have to go back to the invention of sliced bread when he last gave up a run.

Masked in a season where fans and pundits have spent too much time comparing what the Mets did vs. what they didn’t do is how the Weaver signing has turned into one of the best in recent memory. Devin Williams vs. Edwin Diaz comparisons never really got off the ground because the latter has been injured for most of 2026. Weaver, meanwhile, is looking like a two-year steal as long as he sticks around.

There has been some minor speculation across fandoms and reporters about the possibility of Weaver getting traded. Other clubs will no doubt want him. The question is, should the Mets sell when they have this best under control for next year? Unless someone is blowing you away with a franchise-altering offer, you keep this animal. He has been untouchable on the mound, make him so if selling at the trade deadline is the route the Mets take.

Juan Soto has a new bat

Chelsea Janes of SNY covered a story about Juan Soto whose new bat that debuted last month against the Miami Marlins. Soto went through a mini-slump at the beginning of June. It’s over now with several home runs including a pair in their win over the Phillies. This is how Janes described the bat:

“...a thicker, more prominent nob that pushed his bottom hand up from the bottom more than a traditional one. The result is a more evenly weighted bat with the mass spread more from top to bottom, as opposed to the end-weighted one Soto used early in the season.”

The result has been 7 home runs in 22 games in comparison to 10 in his first 36 games with his old bat. The power increase is noticeable. The batting average has been steady with Soto going from a .301 hitter when he debuted the bat to his current .300.

Sean Manaea looks like the pitcher he was meant to be

Sean Manaea hasn’t been a world-beater since re-entering the rotation. What he has been is plenty good enough for what the Mets need him to be. Manaea was never meant to live up to his $25 million per year contract. It was an over-pay by giving him four years’ worth of cash for only three seasons.

Now 0-1 with a 3.18 ERA in two starts, Manaea’s stretch of increasing his velocity and preventing runs began much longer ago. Over the last 30 days he has pitched to a 3.00 ERA with 27 strikeouts in as many innings.

Fans should fully buy into what Bo Bichette has been doing. Manaea, on the other hand, was bad enough last year for not even the Mets to have enough belief in him when they needed starting pitching help early. A pair of satisfying outings against NL East opponents and it’s probably a good idea to declare him back from the dead.

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