NY Mets replace lifetime .177 hitter in AAA with pitcher that has a 7.89 ERA in 2026

Less than a month of baseball to go, the New York Mets are willing to take chances on anyone they can. Most will become forgotten. Their latest move appears to be at least a minor upgrade.

After hitting .195 with Syracuse, catcher Shawn Ross has been DFA’d. The performance actually managed to lift his career batting average at Triple-A to .177. His spot on the 40-man roster was replaced by Cameron Weston. Claimed off waivers from the Baltimore Orioles, he joins the Mets with a lifetime 5.50 ERA in Triple-A and even worse 7.89 ERA in 2026.

Sure, it might be replacing catastrophe with calamity. However, when it comes to a pitcher and a catcher, there’s always some more room for an arm to figure it out over a hitter struggling to meet the Mendoza Line in the minors.

Cameron Weston is a project who could be worth the Mets’ time

Described as a “low-slot, nearly sidearm kitchen sinker.” The colorful words tell us exactly why the Mets felt they needed to test him out. They’ve had a tendency to prefer relievers who work differently at least in terms of arm angles. Unfortunately for Weston, that uniqueness hasn’t played well enough in Triple-A.

His career hasn’t been a complete disaster. He had a 3.41 ERA in just under 100 innings in Double-A. He walked only 2.4 per 9 and had a 10.5 K/9 rate to go with it. He has made a large shift to pitching in relief this season, but hasn’t changed much. His ERA is at 7.86 with a slightly higher WHIP and fewer strikeouts in those spots.

An ERA over 9.00 in May, June, July, and August, he has been painfully consistent in the worst way. His strikeout rate has plummeted over the last two months as well, making the choice by the Orioles to DFA him even more understandable.

Weston is the kind of guy, with 2 minor league options remaining after this season, we’d expect the Mets to get to know in the following weeks and decide if he’s worth a longer look next year or not. The Mets have given plenty of leeway to other players who struggled in Triple-A. Alex Carrillo and Tyler Zuber come to mind.

Weston might not get a long leash as the Mets have a lot of 40-man roster decisions to make this offseason when it comes to protecting legitimate prospects. The plan, as it often is with players of his ilk, could always be to attempt to pass them through waivers at the right time.

In his last time on the mound for Triple-A Norfolk, Weston allowed 4 earned runs in 2 innings of work. This was on August 30th so his arm should be plenty fresh to get into a game for Syracuse as soon as he arrives. Based on how these projects tend to go, Weston is on the bubble and it’ll only take a more intriguing option on the waiver wire for the Mets to move on.

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