{"id":646614,"date":"2026-03-27T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/646614\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:50:25","slug":"carson-benge-hits-home-run-steals-base-in-big-league-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/646614\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Benge hits home run, steals base in big league debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been less than two years since the Mets drafted Carson Benge with their first-round pick, and seven months ago, he was still tearing up Double-A as a member of the Binghamton Rumble Ponies. In his major league debut yesterday, though, he showed what had the prospect world so excited about him as he did a little bit of everything.<\/p>\n

A consensus top-twenty prospect in baseball coming into the 2026 season, Benge is coming off a minor league campaign that saw him finish with a cumulative .281\/.385\/.472 line, 15 home runs, and 22 stolen bases in 519 plate appearances across High-A, Double-A, and Triple-A. Taken individually, none of those stats necessarily jump off the page, but for a player to be capable of doing all of those things is a relative rarity.<\/p>\n

Fittingly, though, Benge stole his first base shortly after hitting his first major league home run in his debut yesterday. Here\u2019s how the home run looked.<\/p>\n

There is, of course, a long way to go here, but you really couldn\u2019t have asked for much more in a top prospect\u2019s major league debut, even if one of the game\u2019s other top prospects had a wildly successful day, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been less than two years since the Mets drafted Carson Benge with their first-round pick, and seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,39176,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-646614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mets","10":"tag-mets-analysis","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116301465319450010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}