Although it is a small size through 17 Venezuelan Winter League games with the Cardenales de Lara baseball team, New York Mets highly-rated infield prospect Luisangel Acuña has hit a blistering .388 with two doubles, one triple, one home run, nine RBI, nine stolen bases, and an impressive .996 OPS.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Sure, Acuña’s 2024 minor league season was a bit inconsistent at times, but he performed well when the Mets called him up to MLB. He smacked 308 with a triple, two doubles, three home runs, and a stellar .966 OPS over 14 contests, while playing a solid shortstop in Francisco Lindor‘s absence near the end of the regular season.
New York has a lot of minor league infield depth, so baseball insiders are not exactly sure where Acuña will fit in on the Mets’ Major League roster in 2025.
But that is a high-class problem with which New York has to mull over during the off-season. It will be a wait-and-see approach the Mets need to apply to see where Acuna and other highly-touted prospects align in the coming season.
A multi-player trade is a possibility, and may shake things up, with the situation possibly working out on its own after all.
We will see.
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