Mets Prospects Jonah Tong & Carson Benge Move One Step Away From The Big Leagues | 'Baseball Isn't Boring'

Boomer & Gio

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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From 'Baseball Isn't Boring' (subscribe here): Bradfo caught up with Mets Prospects Jonah Tong and Carson Benge to discuss their stories, different paths to the Mets organization, and much more as we celebrate their promotion to Triple-A Syracuse To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yeah, there should be some passion.
0:01.6	This doesn't have to be boring.
0:02.7	Boring, boring.
0:04.3	You don't get bored, my baseball.
0:05.5	Okay, one thing the game needs is more people like you, you, you, you. Still have grown men, run around tight hands. It's Mookie Betts. Daniel Bard. Steve Aoki. Here's Salt Alamacia. This is Brockhole. Hey, this is John Lester. Baseball isn't boring. Baseball isn't boring.
0:01.6	Welcome to baseball isn't boring.
0:04.1	Here's your host, Rob Radford. Hey, this is John Lester. Baseball isn't boring. Welcome to baseball isn't boring.
0:22.8	Here's your host, Rob Radford.
0:25.5	Not a lot of good vibes coming from the Mets lately.
0:28.5	Nope, you don't win games.
0:29.6	That's what happens.
0:30.5	But hey, listen, take a respite, take a breath.
0:33.7	What's always a good time is when top prospects get promoted to the next level and that's exactly what the Mets did.
0:39.7	Were they zinging when everyone else was zagging, trying to draw your attention away from what's going on with the major league team?
0:45.6	I don't know. I don't care really because it's always a good time when the prospects are announced to be making the next step,
0:53.5	especially when it's one step away from the
0:55.2	major leagues, and especially when you talk about so many of the top 10 prospects in the organization
1:00.6	making that jump from AA to AAA. So in this case, Jet Williams is the number one overall prospect.
1:06.6	He goes up to AAA. You have Joe Natong. He's the number two prospect. He goes up to AAA. Carson Benj, well, he goes up to AAA. He's the number four prospect and the number seven prospect. Ryan Clifford also going to AAA. Fortunately, we have baseballs and boring. Don't just tell you this things. We also want to have you get to know these guys a little bit better. So we are resurfacing
1:28.9	a conversation I had with two of them. And that would be Jonah Tong and Carson Bench, both from the
1:34.8	futures game. Both were excellent, excellent guys to talk to. And I think you're going to get a great
1:39.8	perspective of what they're all about because you know what now as we said just a step away from
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