Mets minor leaguers got a pair of Week Sixteen honors thanks to a big offensive burst from Daiverson Gutierrez and a strong outing from Jonathan Santucci.
Gutierrez, a catcher, put together the kind of week that can change the temperature around a struggling season. In five games at High-A, he went 10-for-18 with a .556/.526/.778 line, adding a double, a home run, one strikeout, and a stolen base in two attempts.
He also drew no walks. For the week, he led the Mets’ minor league system in hits.
That performance stood out because the 20-year-old had been having a rough year at the plate before this stretch. Coming into the 2026 season, he ranked 24th on the Mets’ top prospects list, and his offense had lagged well behind his defense for most of the year. But over the five games before the break, he found a groove, picking up at least one hit in every contest and multiple hits in four of them.
His season line now sits at 73 games and 257 at-bats, with a .206/.312/.319 slash line, 53 hits, 12 doubles, one triple, five homers, 30 walks, 49 strikeouts, and three stolen bases in six tries, all at High-A.
On the pitching side, Jonathan Santucci earned the nod after a solid start against Hartford. The left-hander struck out eight, walked one, and allowed two runs, though only one was earned.
Santucci, who ranked 12th on the Mets’ preseason top prospects list, had a shaky April with Binghamton, but he’s settled in since then. Since the start of May, he owns a 3.02 ERA and a 3.30 FIP, along with a 29.0 percent strikeout rate and an 11.2 percent walk rate.
There was another strong candidate in Dakota Hawkins, who threw six perfect innings with five strikeouts for High-A Brooklyn in his only outing of the week. But with both pitchers at 23 years old, Santucci got the edge for the slightly less spotless, but still impressive, performance.
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