Tobias Myers arrived with real value attached, but his first season in Queens never came close to matching the billing.
When the Mets sent Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat to the Brewers before the 2026 season, Freddy Peralta was the obvious centerpiece of the deal. Still, Tobias Myers looked like a meaningful piece of the return. He was 27 at the time, had already shown he could help at the major league level, and came with several years of team control.
That promise never really showed up in his first year with the Mets. Over 53.2 innings in the majors this season, Myers posted a 5.53 ERA and a 4.65 FIP.
Both were the worst single-season numbers of his big league career by a clear margin. His usage didn’t help much either, since the Mets optioned him to Triple-A Syracuse in late May and he spent the rest of the year moving back and forth between Syracuse and Queens.
The rough season stands out even more when stacked next to what Myers had done in Milwaukee. Over his previous two seasons there, working both as a starter and a reliever, he had a 3.15 ERA and a 3.92 FIP.
Peralta’s struggles drew more attention because of where he sat in the rotation, but Myers was just as much a letdown in his own way. If anything, the bigger issue is that both pitchers who had succeeded over multiple seasons with the Brewers took major steps backward after landing with the Mets.
Myers is still under team control through the end of the 2030 season, but the Mets used his final option year this season. That means he’d have to be designated for assignment to come off the 40-man roster in 2027, assuming there is a season. For now, that makes him look like a strong bet for the Opening Day roster unless the Mets add a wave of relievers and push him so far down the chart that they would either try to trade him or expose him to waivers.
That scenario seems unlikely based on the current organizational picture. What the Mets do need to do is figure out why Myers struggled so badly, and maybe the answer is simpler than it looked this year: perhaps he’ll be better off without the constant possibility of a quick demotion to the minors or the Mets’ habit of shuffling the final bullpen spots whenever it suits them.
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