Mets call up top prospect A.J. Ewing, can this team find a spark?

The Mets Pod

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Keith Hernandez, Sports, The Mets Pod, Joe De Mayo, Ny Mets, Mlb, New York Mets, Connor Rogers, Mets, Baseball, Sny, Joe Demayo, Andy Martino

4.6 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Connor Rogers and Joe DeMayo look back on another tough week, but look ahead to the debut of top prospect A.J. Ewing on the latest episode of The Mets Pod. After another underwhelming stretch of play for the Mets, the guys discuss the call up of Ewing, the team's continued offensive struggles, and what to make of Francisco Alvarez. Later, Connor and Joe go Down on the Farm to check in on power-hitting prospect Ryan Clifford, and answer Mailbag questions about trade ideas, going back in time to the beginning of the offseason, hitting philosophy, and the overall direction of the Mets franchise. Be sure to subscribe to The Mets Pod at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Today's Show: 00:00 Welcome to the show! 02:35 Mets offense is bad and brutal 04:45 A.J. Ewing gets called up, can he help? 12:00 The Mets Pod hat winners are announced! 12:45 What to make of Francisco Alvarez 18:00 Down on the Farm: Checking in on Ryan Clifford 24:45 The Scoreboard: recapping last week's predictions 25:45 The Scoreboard: making next week's bets 34:15 Mailbag – How about these trade ideas? 38:15 Mailbag – What would you tell Stearns? 43:25 Mailbag - Hitting philosophy and messaging? 49:35 Mailbag - To re-build or not to re-build?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mets pod on today's show. Welcome to the big leagues AJ Ewing. The Mets call up one of their top prospects as they look for any kind of spark for their struggling offense. We also go down on the farm to take a look at Ryan Clifford. We make new scoreboard predictions. And as always, we answer your mailbag questions. So subscribe to the Mets pot at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows.
0:29.5	What's up, everybody?
0:30.8	Welcome to the Mets Pod.
0:36.1	I'm your host, Connor Rogers, joined as always by my co-host, Joe DeMail, and more of the same for our New York Mets show.
0:38.1	The offense continues to struggle.
0:40.3	Borderline put us all to sleep at times, and the Mets reaching down into their farm system,
0:46.8	hoping to find any kind of a spark for a player that hasn't even played 20 AAA games yet,
0:53.1	Joe and A.J. Ewing. We're excited about him.
0:55.9	But man, this tells you the state of the Mets right now, just trying to find any kind of solution here.
1:02.6	Yeah. I mean, look, Connor, it's it's tough here. It's tough in the streets right now as Mets fans.
1:08.0	When you watch these games, just the way the offense is, the starting pitching's
1:13.2	been fine. The pitching in large part has been fine. Their top 10 in baseball and ERA, they
1:18.6	three to four out of every five games keep the Mets in position that they can win a baseball game.
1:26.3	But anytime they give up two runs, it feels almost insurmountable.
1:31.5	So they're at a position that something had to give.
1:35.2	They had to do something.
1:37.1	And it is May 12th here when we record.
1:40.8	There's no reasonable or feasible veteran trade that you can make right now to try a jumpstart
1:47.8	and you don't want to just replace the Andy Abagnas, Austin Slater kind of guys with just a
1:55.5	different version of them. Yeah, just the same guy, different place, different looking person,
2:01.7	whatever. Like you don't want to replace with that. So you have to do something different. And AJ Ewing getting the call is just,
2:08.2	I think something that's going to be exciting for Mets fans. And he has a chance to provide a spark.
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