1 final significant Mets roster move they will definitely make

The New York Mets have 10 games left to play. This hasn’t stopped them from considering one final roster move before the season concludes. 

Back from the IL, Brett Baty hasn’t been ruled out as a promotion candidate for the Mets.

Clearly not in the majors now because he is essentially on a rehab assignment and the Syracuse Mets have a weekend left to play, the thought process seems to have a target date of next Tuesday for the promotion. Baty will no longer have any baseball left to play and with a few other considerations for the Mets to make, giving him some big league at-bats isn’t so preposterous.

Why we’ll definitely see Brett Baty back with the Mets before the year is over

The Mets face two righties in their series against the Atlanta Braves with Chris Sale projected to take the mound in the middle game. By this point, the expectation will be that Francisco Lindor is back in the lineup which makes Luisangel Acuna a bench player yet again. Would they actually send him down? Considering he can now assume the role Eddy Alvarez had for about a week, it would make far more sense for the Mets to give Alvarez a handshake then send him to the minors where he won’t have any games to play in.

Alvarez does have minor league, but the inability to even participate in the postseason should have the Mets keeping Acuna around. Acuna is the speedster the bench needed. Given how well he has hit in the majors thus far, he has more than an edge over Alvarez—give him the whole entire blade.

Baty replacing Alvarez seems inevitable and an easy switch to make. The Mets gain a left-handed bat on their bench and maybe even a guy who could start a game against the Braves to give Mark Vientos some time off. The Mets previously went with DJ Stewart for this role earlier in the month. They didn’t have much of a choice. Baty was injured.

The two righties the Mets are projected to see on the Braves next week are Charlie Morton and Spencer Schwellenbach. A .234 batting average against Morton by lefties and even better .267 from them versus Schwellenbach should have Baty in the lineup for at least one of those games. Any sort of a strong showing out of Baty and he’s going to be one of the extra position players the Mets bring with them into the postseason. If not him, they really only have Stewart.