Undrafted NY Mets prospect has started off 2025 ablaze in Brooklyn

An undrafted free agent the New York Mets signed in March of 2022, it has been a slow yet productive ascent for 21-year-old Chris Suero through the minor league system. A catcher who spends time at other positions (not uncommon for minor leaguers), Suero is easy to overlook if all you do is look at top prospect rankings. You won’t find him on many. But if you were to seek out some specific results this season, you’d see there may be a diamond in the rough over in Brooklyn.

Suero has started off this season incredibly hot. Playing alongside far more notable Mets prospects including fellow catcher Ronald Hernandez whom the team acquired in the 2023 David Robertson trade with the Miami Marlins, he’s belting baseball at a tremendous rate.

After 8 games and 32 struts up to the plate, Suero had 5 doubles, 3 home runs, 9 RBI, and a .345/.406/.828 slash line.

We’ve seen this before with Mets prospect Chris Suero

Suero actually began last season pretty well, too. For St. Lucie, he slashed .318/.444/.530 in 81 plate appearances in the month of April. Knocking a pair of home runs, 6 doubles, driving in 14 and even stealing 4 bases, Suero proved himself to be a complete menace.

Reality would set in. A .171/.306/.229 slash line in May dropped those numbers down. In fact, he wouldn’t hit over .218 in any month until September when he finished strong in his final 6 games. He was with Brooklyn by then, a promotion that occurred a week into May when his numbers tumbled.

Suero may very well be a case of a player who takes a full season to acclimate himself. We saw it plenty in the minors with Francisco Alvarez. Every stop along the way would cause him to struggle. The following season, when he’d begin at the same level, Alvarez was hitting home runs with authority. Suero is nowhere close to being in the same stratosphere as Alvarez. He may not even end up sticking at catcher if the bat continues to hold up and he marches his way forward toward the major leagues.

Time at first base and in left field doesn’t say much about a player at his level. There’s a lot more to it, but he has thrown out runners at a clip of 26% with his biggest struggles coming last year after being promoted to Brooklyn. This year, he’s at 40% with 3 successes against him and two gunned down.

The Mets farm system is loaded with catchers, many of whom have spent time underperforming. Suero’s teammate, Hernandez, is batting only .200 in the early going. Kevin Parada continues to struggle himself. Just a .188/.235/.250 slash line in his first 17 plate appearances this year further suggests he’s probably never going to reach his potential.