Mets will miss facing their 2021 Minor League Pitcher of the Year by a day

How many recent New York Mets Minor League Pitcher of the Year award winners can you name? Off the top of my head, we have Christian Scott from last year. There’s Corey Oswalt from maybe 2018 or so. In 2021, the honor was bestowed upon a guy named Adam Oller.

If the name rings a bell it’s because Oller was one of two pitchers traded to the Oakland Athletics prior to 2022 for starter Chris Bassitt. He saw some action in the majors with Oakland resulting in a 7.09 ERA in his 94 innings working as a starter and reliever.

Oller found his way from the Cleveland Guardians organization to the Miami Marlins this season. After 25 innings down in Triple-A, he’s making a major league return just in time to miss the Mets by a day. He’ll start for the Marlins on Monday against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Former Mets farmhand Adam Oller will join the Marlins right after they leave town

Oller unimpressively had a 7.48 ERA with the Guardians’ Triple-A team before he was released. Fortunately, things got better with the Marlins’ Triple-A squad. A 3-0 record and 2.88 ERA was the result.

As we’ve seen over the last two games, the Marlins are in full tryout mode. They were one of the biggest trade deadline sellers in what equates to the closest thing to a rebuild. Their manager is a known lame duck. They aren’t playing with much passion and have been sloppy on more than one occasion already.

Back in 2021 in the one year Oller spent with the Mets, he was 9-4 with a 3.45 ERA in 23 minor league starts. Striking out batters at a rate of 10.4 per 9, he looked like a sneaky pickup by New York. He first came here as a Rule 5 Draft pick from the San Francisco Giants.

The other guy the Mets gave up for Bassitt hasn’t done much better. J.T. Ginn remains with the Athletics and has a 5.72 ERA in 72.1 innings at the Triple-A level. A few years younger than Oller still, this remains one of the better trades by the Mets of the Steve Cohen era where very little was lost.

At least now we can wish Oller the best and a big game to take down the Diamondbacks.