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Allan was once the top pitching prospect in the Mets organization after drafting him in the third round of the 2018 draft and paying him well above slot value to convince him to skip college. Unfortunately, Allan has had two Tommy John surgeries since then, but he is fully healthy for the first time since 2021 and has looked impressive early in Mets camp. At just 23 years old, Allan is still young enough to climb his way to MLB innings, but that seems unlikely to happen this season after so much time off.

Aranda opened the scoring for Tampa Bay with a solo home run off Clay Holmes in the fourth inning and then was in the middle of their six-run sixth with a single to load the bases before coming around to score a few batters later. He now has eight home runs to go along with a .322 batting average and .907 OPS as one of the most surprising success stories through the first half of the season.

Things got a bit hairy for Fairbanks after Jeff McNeil squeaked a single past Brandon Lowe into right field and then he walked Brett Baty to put the tying runs on base. He beared down though to strike Ronny Mauricio out on three straight sliders to end the game. This was his first appearance since blowing a save against the Red Sox on Monday, so it felt even better to watch him weasel out of this jam.

Bradley cruised through the first three innings of this game before losing focus after some defensive miscues – one being his own – during the fourth and fifth. None of the runs charged against him were earned, but he let that fourth inning especially get out of hand and didn’t seem sharp as the chaos ensued. Also, the Mets torched his fastball for a 105.4 mph average exit velocity on five balls in play. They didn’t hit a ball softer than 101.1 mph against it. Nevertheless, he’s scheduled to face the Orioles next time out.

Marte has turned his season around in a big way. He has a .960 OPS over his last 15 games and has worked his way back into a nearly full-time role at designated hitter for the Mets since Mark Vientos went out with a hamstring injury. Sadly, as he’s now 36 years old, he’s no longer anything close to the prolific base stealer he once was with four on the season.

Solid again, Holmes has impressively asserted himself as a legitimate starting pitcher through the first half of this season. Yet, he was pulled a bit surprisingly after just five innings of work and 79 pitches here. His velocity dipped a good bit during that fifth inning and the Mets would likely want to manage his workload a tad given since he’s already thrown more innings than he has in any major league season to this point since he’s working as a starter again. Of course, the Mets’ bullpen promptly coughed up their four run lead in the following inning. Be on the lookout for Holmes’ fastball velocity as he continues to work through his transition and whether or not the Mets continue to limit him around 80 pitches, just like they did here. Also, after not allowing a home run through his first seven starts of the season, he’s now given nine in his last seven starts. His next is scheduled to come on the road against the Braves.

It was a given that Acuña would run less in his return from a torn ACL, but we were still wondering how much less. He finally attempted and succeeded on his first steal in his 19th game of the year tonight. In his MVP season of 2023, he attempted 87 steals, with 73 successes, in 159 games.

After striking out 12 Giants last time out, Elder seemed like a fine streaming choice against the impotent Rockies tonight. However, he couldn’t make it out of the fourth while giving up seven hits and three walks. A couple of meekly hit doubles and groundball singles didn’t help the cause. Oddly enough, the Rockies were 3-for-8 when they hit the ball hard against him and 4-for-6 when they didn’t. Elder isn’t recommended with the Mets next on the schedule.

The Braves seem to have settled on Iglesias in the eighth and Dylan Lee in the ninth for now, but it’s not working out for Lee; both times he’s been in position to close, the Braves offense has added on and turned it into a non-save situation. That was the case tonight; Iglesias pitched in a three-run game before the Braves scored five times in the bottom of the eighth. Lee then followed with a scoreless ninth. We’d still say Iglesias is the better use of a roster spot in fantasy leagues, even though Lee probably will get some save chances in the short term.

The Rockies were actually up by three runs when Márquez left tonight, only to end up losing 12-4. Márquez now has a 3.54 ERA and a 27/6 K/BB over 28 innings in his last two starts. If he can maintain this, contenders will be after him at the deadline. He’ll face the Nationals next.

McMahon has been an utter disaster with men on base this season — he entered the night with 19 RBI in 268 plate appearances and seven of his eight homers had been solo shots — so it was nice to see him knock in runners twice tonight. It’s just his third multi-RBI game of the year, and it’s his first with three RBI since July 30 of last year. Contrast that with fellow NL West third baseman Eugenio Suárez, who has nine three-RBI games this season and actually delivered three in a row last month.