Ronny Mauricio continues to send reminders that he was a top prospect not all that long ago.<\/p>\n
The Mets\u2019 infielder hit a mammoth home run to right field Thursday with Triple-A Syracuse to continue his blistering showing in the minor leagues in his return from a torn ACL.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old now has three homers in just 57 minor-league at-bats.<\/p>\n
Mauricio had long been hyped as a potential starter for the Mets and he showed promise during his 2023 call-up, hitting .292 with an .852 OPS.<\/p>\n
That momentum, though, came crashing down after he suffered a torn ACL in Dec. 2023 during a Dominican Winter League game and also underwent a procedure to remove scar tissue.<\/p>\n
Now that he\u2019s healthy again, Mauricio is trying to work his way back to Flushing. He\u2019s been spending time at second base and third base during his minor-league stint.<\/p>\n
The camera man even lost the ball. @SNY_Mets\/X<\/p>\n
The Mets have Jeff McNeil and Luisangel Acuna at second base, and Brett Baty can play there too, but the road to Queens may not be completely shut. <\/p>\n
McNeil has underwhelmed the last two years, although he\u2019s off to a strong start this year. Acuna has cooled off and lost playing time since winning NL Rookie of the Month for April.<\/p>\n
Any question about Mauricio\u2019s readiness, though, is not a pressing once since the team plans to give him time to build back up after one year away.<\/p>\n
Mauricio moments before homering Thursday. @SNY_Mets\/X<\/p>\n
Mauricio stayed in the minors once his rehab assignment ended, as Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns said earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The infielder has appeared in just 17 minor-league games thus far.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s solo homer came in the eighth inning of Syracuse\u2019s 12-3 win over Iowa, the Cubs\u2019 Triple-A affiliate. He went 2-for-4 with two runs scored while playing second base.<\/p>\n
Mauricio during spring training. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s still got a little way to go to get back to being a healthy player, to get back into that true baseball shape, ready to compete at a high level in the big leagues,\u201d Stearns said earlier this month. \u201cIt\u2019s continuing to get him at-bats, get him reps in the minor leagues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronny Mauricio continues to send reminders that he was a top prospect not all that long ago. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,3967,4,1690,61,2548,4203,4804,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-66600","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-minor-leagues","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets","16":"tag-ronny-mauricio","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114597723314760089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66600","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=66600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}