When Blade Tidwell takes the mound for the New York Mets against the St. Louis Cardinals today at 1:15 p.m. at Busch Stadium, he will become the 107th former Brooklyn Cyclones (High-A) to make the Major Leagues.
Tidwell is slated to make a spot start for the Mets, per SNY.
The 23-year-old Tidwell, New York’s 15th-rated prospect in its minor league system, posted a 1-2 record with a 5.00 ERA in 27.00 innings of work in six game starts with Triple-A Syracuse before New York called him up the “The Show.”
The Mets’ second round pick of the 2022 MLB Amateur Draft out of the University of Tennessee, Tidwell has put up a 15-22 mark with a 4.23 ERA in four seasons in New York’s farm system.
Tidwell, in his first full professional baseball season between the Cyclones and the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies, struck out 153 batters in 116 innings in 2023. He returned to the Eastern League and dominated from the start in ’24 with a 2.41 ERA and 44 strikeouts in seven appearances, five of which were starts.
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