Four Mets Land on MLB Pipeline’s Preseason Top 100 Prospects List

MLB Pipeline has released their 2026 preseason Top 100 prospects list, and the following Mets cracked the rankings:

• No. 6 – RHP Nolan McLean
• No. 16 – OF Carson Benge
• No. 48 – RHP Jonah Tong
• No. 97 – INF/OF A.J. Ewing

All four New York farmhands are officially prospect promotion eligible because they are on both Pipeline and Baseball America’s Top 100 lists.

Nolan McLean

The Mets can now pair McLean with Freddy Peralta as a formidable one-two punch at the top of the rotation. After the Baltimore Orioles chose not to sign him in 2022 because of health concerns, McLean was drafted by the Mets in the third round of the 2023 draft. After overhauling his arsenal last season, McLean got the call to the show in August 2025 and looked like a potential frontline starter. He will look to grow further in 2026, and with his ability to make quick adjustments, the sky is the limit.

Carson Benge

Benge will have every opportunity to win the Opening Day left field job and looks poised to do so. Even though the results were not there over a small sample size with Triple-A Syracuse, everything under the hood looked the same as it did in Double-A Binghamton. Sometimes 103 PA with a hit-by-pitch to the hand are just noise and bad batted ball luck. With elite contact rates, exit velocities, barrel rates, and swing decisions in Triple-A, Benge could be on the fast track to the majors in 2026.

Jonah Tong

Tong befuddles hitters with his high arm slot and fastball that carries an elite 19.8 iBV. He changed his Vulcan changeup grip to the horseshoe of the baseball, which led to more arm side run and drop. As he saw in the majors, he may need to refine a glove side pitch or have a stronger bridge pitch to his curveball before he returns in the majors, but at only 22-years-old, he has plenty of time to develop into a true weapon for the Mets.

A.J. Ewing

Ewing makes some of the best swing decisions of any player in the minors, and his swing is optimized to spray line drives throughout the field. His exit velocities are better than one may expect, but his swing is not optimized for power. He has shown the defensive ability to be strong with the glove in the outfield as well as at second base and could make the majors as early as 2026.

Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat

Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat were traded to the Milwaukee Brewers on January 21, 2026, for Peralta and Tobias Myers. Williams ranked No. 57 overall and Sproat ranked No. 100 overall on Pipeline’s list heading into the season.

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