MACK - Let's Revisit - MIF Mitch Voit
Mitch Voit (Mitchell Veblen Voit) is a top New York Mets prospect, a right-handed batting/throwing infielder (primarily second base) currently with the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies.Background
- Born September 30, 2004, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (age 21). Listed at 6'0", 201 lbs.
- Attended Whitefish Bay High School (same school as Craig Counsell) and played college baseball at the University of Michigan.
- Was a two-way player (infielder/pitcher) early in college; threw low-to-mid 90s before internal brace surgery on his right elbow in 2024 essentially ended his pitching path. He focused fully on hitting as a junior in 2025.
- In 2025 at Michigan: .346/.471/.668 with 14 HR, 14 SB, more walks (40) than strikeouts (34) in 56 games. All-Big Ten First Team and All-Defensive Team; D1Baseball All-America third team. Highest Michigan MLB Draft pick since 2000.
- Selected by the Mets 38th overall (first-round pick, Comp Balance Tax penalty) in the 2025 MLB Draft. Signed for a $1.75 million bonus (under slot value).
- 2025 (pro debut): Single-A St. Lucie — .235 AVG, 1 HR, 20 SB in 22 games.
- 2026: Started at High-A Brooklyn Cyclones (.242/.349/.396 with 11 HR and 36 SB in 76 games). Strong second-half stretch earned a promotion to Double-A Binghamton on July 27.
- At Double-A: Extremely hot start (including multiple Eastern League Player of the Week awards). Combined 2026 minors stats (as of recent reports) around .278 AVG, .383 OBP, .444 SLG, 12 HR, 42+ SB across levels. Ranks among Mets’ top prospects (around No. 5–6 on MLB Pipeline at promotion time). Known for athleticism, speed, solid defense, contact skills, and developing power.
8 comments:
Mitch is either Benge or Ewing in 2027. Take your pick. Buy popcorn. Root him on.
Voit is my guy for second
Just period
He will fill the Voit there
This kid will go far. He has learned a few things about how to hit at the AA level, and has been pouring it on! He plays defense and offense equally well.
Further proof that you don't need a top six pick to net a good player. See Benge, Carson.
Yes, you can get a good player later in the draft but great players go early in the draft
I have defended Voit from day 1, and not just because we share some Milwaukee and UM roots. He's got major league skill set and attitude. Here's a simple argument for not playing Semien over him at 2B. You are going to have to pay some or all of Semien's salary one way or another. For the extra 1m you may have to pay Voit (probably less) you are going to get better performance overall while building a stronger foundation. On the other hand, if you play Semien because you are paying him 20m+ next year, then you are going to have to add some other player as a bench piece who is not starter quality and is not part of the future and cost likely to at least as much and have two players whose total production will probably not equal Voit's while all the while you are wasting a year of Voit's potential contribution to the team. That's how I think about things.
And I feel that way about Polanco as well. I am not sure that Young is the future at 1B, but he plays it better than Polanco is likely to. And you take his salary and that of another like maybe Amick or someone else who might be a building block and you are certain to get more production than you get from Polanco. So why play Polanco just because you made a mistake in signing him. Why pay the price 3X over: once as a signing, second time because he makes so much, and third time, performance on the field. It just doesn't make sense to me..
Picking up option on Robert involves more of the same sort of misapplication of resources.
I have no objection to bringing up. Petri as well as Voit. Together they make no money at all, and they both play ball the way the Brewers player's do. Do you think Baty or Vientos are as good overall as Petri and Voit?
It's great to have 3 power bats in the lineup, by which I mean 25+ HR, and we are fortunate that we don't really sacrifice BA (by current major league standards) at 2 of those already (Lindor and Soto). We may have to to some extent for the 3rd which could be either at 1B or DH.
We can expect 20 from Benge as well.
I've made this point before i think about analytics: they are at their best when making individual assessments and least useful when making collective decisions (though in principle, simulations on a computer could play a useful role). But a LARGE part of putting a team together depends not on individual attributes, but on how various parts fit together. Brewers are a great example. You need a view about how you want to play the game; And there is an overarching principle you have to choose. You want to have as many ways to win games as you can; and the thing that maximizes your opportunity to do that is pitching. Not depth of pitching, excellence of pitching. Then defense. After that for me it's a combination of traffic on base, clutch hitting, productive outs and periodic power.
Pitching allows you to stay in the max number of games you play. Defense is the number one insurance protection for your pitching. traffic maximizes stress on the other team. and less understood than it should be traffic is not only upsetting to pitchers but it means the defense has to play differently than it would creating gaps in the infield and outfield. The worst thing is unproductive outs because it is experienced by the defense as a stress reducer and allows them to go back and play in more comfortable alignments.
This is another area in which the analytics is failing teams. Not all outs are equal.
It leads to lost arts, like bunting. Why aren't the Mets working on Ewing bunting. If he had bunting skills he would not have experienced the extent of the current slump he is in. He needs more in his arsenal.
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