For a personification of the triumph that was the 2025 season in the Mets’ system — ESPN ranked the club’s farm the No. 1 in baseball last August — and a personification of the “regression” through much of this season that Steve Cohen has alluded to, consider R.J. Gordon.
A 13th-round pick in 2024, the 6-foot starting pitcher outperformed any expectations apart from his own in his first pro season in 2025, when he climbed to Double-A Binghamton and finished the year with a 3.36 ERA and 147 strikeouts in 128 ⅔ innings.
And then he suffered a lat strain early this year, didn’t return to Binghamton until May and had a cumulative 7.96 ERA over his first 15 games into mid-July.
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