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The Mets continue a four-game series against the Phillies in Philadelphia on Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. on SNY.

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Mets Notes

• Juan Soto is hitting .306/.461/.694 with 13 home runs, 30 RBI, 32 runs scored, and 12 stolen bases in 141 plate appearances over his last 30 games dating back to Aug. 6
• Francisco Lindor has been on fire for about a month, hitting .375/.468/.615 with five homers, 10 doubles, and 10 stolen bases in 124 plate appearances over 26 games going back to Aug. 12
• Sean Manaea struggled badly in his last start, allowing five runs on eight hits (including two home runs) in 3.2 innings against the Tigers in Detroit on Sept. 1

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Get to know Connelly Early: Red Sox pitching prospect set to make MLB debut originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

The youth movement in Boston has another early addition.

The Boston Red Sox are expected to promote left-handed pitching prospect Connelly Early from Triple-A Worcester on Tuesday, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reports. Early will start in Tuesday’s game against the Athletics in Sacramento, while right-hander Dustin May will go on the injured list in a corresponding move, per Rosenthal.

Early’s expected promotion comes less than two weeks after the Red Sox called up another lefty prospect, Payton Tolle, who already has made two starts for Boston.

So, what’s the skinny on Early, and why are the Red Sox promoting him now? Here’s what you need to know about the 23-year-old southpaw.

Connelly Early’s bio and stats

• Age: 23
• Height/weight: 6-foot-3, 195 pounds
• College: University of Virginia
• Drafted: Fifth round of the 2023 MLB Draft (151 overall)
• 2025 stats at Double-A Portland (15 games, 12 starts): 7-2 record, 71.2 IP, 2.51 ERA, 1.130 WHIP, 11 BB, 36 SO
• 2025 stats at Triple-A Worcester (six games, six starts): 3-1 record, 28.2 IP, 2.83 ERA, 1.047 WHIP, 29 BB, 52 SO

Early began the 2025 season at Double-A Portland and pitched very well for the Sea Dogs with a 2.51 ERA through 15 appearances. He earned the call-up to Triple-A Worcester at the beginning of August and continued his success with the WooSox, allowing two runs or fewer in five of his six starts.

The Virginia product is the No. 6 prospect in Boston’s system, per MLB Pipeline, and the Red Sox’ fourth-ranked pitching prospect behind Tolle, 2025 draft pick Kyson Witherspoon and 22-year-old left-hander Brandon Clarke.

Connelly Early’s scouting report

Early has a fastball that tops out at 96 mph, but his best pitch is his changeup, which MLB Pipeline describes as “lively.”

“Early can’t overpower hitters but has the feel to provide consistent strikes without catching too much of the plate,” MLB Pipeline wrote in its scouting report of Early. “He throws his fastball just one third of the time, just enough to keep hitters honest and set up his secondary pitches, and his heater may need more velocity or life at higher levels.”

Early has excelled at every level of the minors so far and has managed to keep the ball in the park, with just five home runs allowed over 100.1 innings of work this season.

Why are the Red Sox promoting Early now?

Early had a projected big-league ETA of 2026, but the Red Sox are hurting for arms at the moment. Kutter Crawford, Hunter Dobbins, Tanner Houck and Patrick Sandoval are all out for the year, while May will join Richard Fitts and Cooper Criswell on the injured list as well.

So, outside of Boston’s “big three” of Garrett Crochet, Lucas Giolito and Brayan Bello, manager Alex Cora doesn’t have much pitching depth to work with, to the point where he resorted to a “bullpen game” last Wednesday against the Cleveland Guardians.

It is a bit curious that the Red Sox have yet to promote Kyle Harrison, the 24-year-old lefty acquired in the Rafael Devers trade who has actual MLB experience. But considering Tolle and now Early have been called up ahead of him, it appears the team believes Harrison has more room for improvement before making his Red Sox big-league debut.

Early will take the mound against A’s left-hander Jeffrey Springs in Sacramento on Tuesday, with first pitch set for 10:10 p.m. ET.

Here's what happened in Mets Land on Monday, in case you missed it...

• Nolan McLeangave the Mets 5.1 innings of one-run ball despite ripping off a fingernail in the middle of his start, but New York's offense was non-existent in a 1-0 loss to the Phillies in Philadelphia
• With the loss, the Mets are now just 3.0 games up on the Giants for the third Wild Card spot in the NL. New York holds the tiebreaker over San Francisco 
• Carlos Mendozareacted to the Mets' inconsistent play
• Cedric Mullinsis struggling at the plate and trying to find answers
• Kodai Sengais likely to make his first Triple-A start in the coming days
• Tylor Megill's season is likely over with him being shut down due to tightness
• Luis Torrenswas placed on the IL due to a forearm contusion
• WATCH: McLean and Mullins reacted to Monday's loss

Athletics' Jacob Wilson has Tony Gwynn-like numbers through first 137 MLB games originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

The start of Athletics shortstop Jacob Wilson’s MLB career may be the best that baseball has seen in over 40 years. 

Through 137 career games played, the 23-year-old rookie has recorded similar numbers to Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, who is considered one of the best hitters in baseball history. 

Wilson has posted a .304 batting average, .349 on-base percentage and a .423 slugging percentage in 562 plate appearances through his first 137 career games, all marks greater than the late San Diego Padres legend. 

The rookie shortstop’s low strikeout total is also comparable to the numbers Gwynn posted at the start of his career. Wilson has just 44 strikeouts compared to Gwynn’s 37 in the same number of games played to start their careers (7.8 percent and 6.9 percent of plate appearances, respectively).

This season, Wilson has posted a 7.4 percent strikeout rate, the third best in Major League Baseball among qualified batters behind Luis Arraez (2.8 percent) and Nico Hoerner (7.0 percent). 

Wilson is also in the hunt for the 2025 batting title. Entering Tuesday, he has the second-best batting average (.315) behind Aaron Judge (.321). 

He has led all rookies in batting average since April. The next-closest rookie is his teammate Nick Kurtz, who enters Tuesday with a .301 batting average. 

While Wilson battles for the batting title with Judge, he is also in a battle with Kurtz for the AL Rookie of the Year award, which Kurtz is heavily favored for after the first baseman’s emergence in the first half of the season. 

Only eight pairs of teammates have finished first and second in Rookie of the Year voting. In 2022, Michael Harris II and Spencer Strider of the Atlanta Braves finished first and second, respectively, for NL Rookie of the Year. The 1984 Seattle Mariners duo of Alvin Davis and Mark Langston was the last pair to achieve the feat in the American League. 

The A’s have not had a Rookie of the Year award winner since Andrew Bailey in 2009. The last position player to win it for the franchise was Bobby Crosby in 2004, who now serves as the team’s first base coach.

Logan Webb hits new MLB career milestone, shows how far he's come as Giants ace originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO — As a graphic appeared on the scoreboard and the crowd started to rise and cheer, Logan Webb walked slowly back to the dugout at Oracle Park. He stayed focused, because the Giants still were in a close game at the time, but he did sneak one look back at the scoreboard. 

Webb didn’t need anyone to tell him that he had just reached 200 strikeouts, the reason for the celebration. It has been a goal all season long, and before the game, he joked about it with catcher Patrick Bailey. 

“I’m only six away,” he told Bailey. “But I’m not counting.”

The staff ace ended up getting seven of them, becoming the first Giant to reach 200 strikeouts since Carlos Rodón in 2022 and the first pitcher in the National League to do it this year. His previous career-high was 194, and he’ll end up demolishing that. 

On a night when the Giants did their best to calm the talk about a playoff push, Webb didn’t shy away from what 200 strikeouts meant to him. He credited Bailey and pitching coach JP Martinez, along with Justin Verlander and Robbie Ray, two veteran mentors who have done it a combined 14 times in the big leagues. 

“It’s really cool,” Webb said. 

It was also a long time coming for one of the game’s best. 

Webb broke through in 2021 and finished second in Cy Young Award voting two seasons later, but he has never rested on his success. He has worked hard over the years to become better at holding runners, and has made remarkable strides in that department this season. By one metric — Net Bases Prevented — he now ranks among the top 10 in baseball. 

Webb constantly is tinkering with his times and looks, and where he stands on the rubber. The biggest change, though, has been to his pitch mix. 

When he nearly won a Cy Young in 2023, Webb threw his changeup 41 percent of the time. By Run Value, it was the most effective pitch in the big leagues, but last season, Webb noticed that opposing hitters were a bit too comfortable leaning out over the plate to try and hit his changeup and sinker. He added a cutter, and this year he has thrown the pitch more than 200 times. 

His changeup usage is down to 23 percent and he mixes in a few more four-seamers, giving hitters another wrinkle to think about. 

Webb adores his four-seamer, although multiple pitching coaches have groaned about it sometimes, given how dominant his sinker is. He has ended 34 strikeouts with his four-seamer after totaling 36 the previous two seasons combined, which has helped this push for 200 strikeouts. 

“I think it’s just execution,” Bailey said. “I feel like this year he’s been really dialed in about locating pitches, and I feel like the four-seam has been really big this year. It takes some pressure off the changeup, the (slider) has been really good, too, to both sides. And one of the biggest things is just count leverage. You strike more guys out when you get to two strikes and he does a really good job of that.”

For years, Webb has been one of the game’s top groundball pitchers. He’s still tied for the league lead in double plays, but there are new tools to use this year, and that showed Monday. He dug deep with the potential go-ahead run on third, striking out Adrian Del Castillo with a changeup to reach 200. He would add one more in the sixth inning. 

“That really wasn’t him before. It was more (pitch to) contact and try to get deep into games that way,” manager Bob Melvin said. “Now he can get strikeouts when he needs to and groundballs when he needs to. He’s just a better pitcher now. He continues to get better. He reads swings well, he sees how guys are swinging, and also the teams that he has come up against a lot — the Padres and Dodgers, teams that have a lot of at-bats against him — he’s getting different swings out of them now.”

Melvin noted that Webb does plenty of homework between starts, always looking for a different way to approach his next game. Earlier this season, he built off that and threw 41 sliders in a game against the Padres. A few weeks later, he threw 29 cutters at the Dodgers. 

Webb’s next start will be against Los Angeles, and it will be a huge one for a team that all of a sudden is just three games out in the Wild Card race. It also will give Webb a chance to reach 200 in a different way. He should have at least three more starts this season, and he needs 15 1/3 innings to get to 200 for a third straight year. Regardless of where that number ends up, Webb should lead the NL for a third straight season. 

It’s a combination that is hard to beat. The Giants have the game’s most durable starter, and in his seventh big league season, he also has become one of the league’s best strikeout pitchers. 

“He’s a unicorn as far as that goes,” Melvin said. 

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