The Mets may have found something in Bryce Jenkins, and the best part for them is how quietly it happened.
A 17th-round pick in the 2023 MLB Draft, Jenkins didn’t arrive with much fanfare. He was 25 this season, had barely thrown in college - just 16.1 innings - and had only added another 16 professional innings from 2023-2025. Tommy John surgery was the main reason his track had moved so slowly.
But 2026 changed the conversation.
Jenkins came back and carved up Double-A hitters in a way few expected. He posted a 1.99 ERA in 40.2 innings with Brooklyn, struck out 10.4 batters per nine and walked 3.3 per nine, enough to earn a promotion.
Once he got to Binghamton, he kept rolling. In 13.2 relief innings, he won four games and allowed just a 0.66 ERA, while his strikeout rate settled at 9.2 K/9 and his walk rate stayed at 3.3 BB/9.
Put it all together, and Jenkins finished with a 1.66 ERA and a 0.86 WHIP - the kind of line that stands out anywhere in a system. Among Mets major leaguers and minor leaguers with qualified innings, nobody did better in 2026.
The same was true for WHIP. He wasn’t surviving on smoke and mirrors, either.
Jenkins was simply hammering the strike zone and keeping hitters from squaring him up. At Brooklyn, opponents managed only 3.8 hits per nine innings.
The Mets had already taken a closer look before this breakout year. After Jenkins logged 12 innings and put up a 6.00 ERA in 2025, they sent him to the Arizona Fall League.
That stint didn’t exactly scream breakout, either - he gave up seven runs in 8.1 innings. At that point, it would have been easy to write him off.
He was already 24, and as a low draft pick from the previous regime, he fit the profile of a pitcher who might just disappear into the minor league pile.
Instead, he pushed himself back onto the map.
His age now gives him a chance to move faster than most, and that makes him a name worth tracking. He could be a sneaky grab in this year’s upcoming Rule 5 Draft, if there is one, though he still has only a little more than a dozen innings above Single-A. A major league impact still feels a few months away at minimum, and the question is whether a team could carry him for the full 2027 calendar.
If Jenkins keeps pitching like he did in 2026, the next step is obvious. He could climb through Double-A quickly and maybe join the Mets’ revolving group of relievers.
Triple-A is the real checkpoint, though, and it has knocked down more than a few Mets pitchers lately. Dylan Ross and Ryan Lambert were two of the more notable relievers in 2026 whose stock took a hit there.
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