3 Mets prospects we could see traded before the Rule 5 Draft in December

3) Mike Vasil

Hamel was drafted by the Mets with hype. Mike Vasil had to earn it. Unfortunately, he ran into the same brick wall as Hamel in Triple-A. The difference for him is there is a much larger sample at the Triple-A level to start to question him.

Vasil was 4-4 with a 5.30 ERA in 16 starts for Syracuse in 2023. This past season his journey continued one level below the majors with even worse numbers. Vasil was 8-10 with a 6.04 ERA in 27 starts plus a pair of relief appearances.

Home runs ate him up. He surrendered them at a rate of 1.6 per 9. Walk numbers weren’t atrocious at 3.5 per 9 but his strikeout total of 7.3 per 9 left a lot to be desired. This was a guy who had routinely been over a K per 9.

He uncharacteristically hit 14 batters, too. He hit 6 coming into the year. This was meant to be a season where Vasil might contend for big league innings. Unfortunately, inconsistency kept him in the minors. He’s getting passed on the minor league depth chart in favor of others. A year younger than Hamel favors him slightly. However, the Mets 40-man roster begins to overflow the more players like those two they have on it. Alex Ramirez was the only prospect the Mets felt the need to protect in last year’s Rule 5 Draft. How will they approach it this December?