Brett Baty’s bat is too hot for the Mets to ignore any longer

The New York Mets sent down third baseman Brett Baty to Triple-A to start the season, and he’s already showing that it was the wrong decision to make.

The New York Mets left the fanbase scratching their heads with their Opening Day decisions.

Despite a strong spring, the Mets decided to send down third base prospect Brett Baty to Triple-A Syracuse to start off the season. General manager Billy Eppler said he wanted Baty to have more experience playing third base in the minors, despite playing over 200 games at the position.

New York decided to start Eduardo Escobar at third base to start the year, and it didn’t pan out the way that they had hoped. Entering Friday, Escobar recorded a .103 batting average, a .143 on-base percentage, a .205 slugging percentage, one home runs, three runs scored, four RBI, four hits, and 11 strikeouts in 39 at-bats (12 games).

As for Baty, he is crushing it at Triple-A. Look no further than his go-ahead grand slam on Friday night against the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the Triple-A affiliate for the Yankees.

Brett Baty is making Mets look bad for sending him to Triple-A

Entering Friday’s game, Baty was slashing .387/.486/.839 while recording four home runs, eight runs scored, 10 RBI, and 12 hits in eight games. After that grand slam, Baty’s batting average skyrocketed to .412.

With that, Mets fans are figuratively going to be looking at Eppler’s direction, wondering when Baty is going to get another chance at the majors. After all, he is making it look effortless in the batter’s box currently.

Here is what Eppler said when explaining why he sent Baty to Triple-A:

"“You learn by playing a lot, and while he had a great camp, we’re really excited about his future, there’s just some more development markers left for him to reach. He’ll go down, probably carry a lot that he consumed here in Triple-A and we’re really excited about his future and the type of kid he is and what he does in the batter’s box, but also the strides he’s made defensively.”"

Eppler did get to see what Baty was doing at Syracuse, as he was in attendance for the Apr. 13 game at PNC Park, and watched him crush a three-run homer.

If Baty continues to hit at this pace, it may only be a matter of time until the team caves in and bring him up.