Mark Vientos #27

Mark Anthony Vientos graduated from American Heritage (Fla.) High School...Enjoys running on the beach and practicing yoga and Pilates in the offseason...Usually runs a few miles to clear his mind...Enjoys video games and playing ping pong with his friends...He has his own table...His favorite food is sushi...Attended the same high school as 13-year MLB veteran Eric Hosmer...At 17 years old, he was the youngest player chosen on Day 1 of the 2017 First-Year Player Draft.

2024

Appeared in a career-high 111 games over two separate big league stints...Remained on the Major League roster for the rest of the season after he was recalled from Triple-A on May 15...His 27 home runs were tied for the fourth-most in a single season by a Met age 24 or younger...Ranked fourth in the NL with a 15.30 AB/HR rate and fifth with a .516 SLG (min. 300 AB)...Batted. 297/.355/.586 with 10 home runs, seven doubles and 26 RBI over 35 games from May 18-July 3...During that span, was fourth in the NL in SLG tied for fifth in homers and fifth in OPS with a .941 clip (min. 100 PA)...Hit safely in a career-best 10 games from Aug. 13-22...Slugged a walk-off two-run homer in the 11th inning on April 28 vs. St. Louis...Was his first career walk-off homer and RBI...Laced a game-tying single in the ninth in the Mets 6-5 victory over the Phillies in London on June 9...Launched a pair of solo home runs on June 25 vs. Yankees...Homered in three straight at-bats dating back to his final at-bat on June 23 at Chicago-NL...Was the first Met since Robinson Canó (7/23/19 at San Diego) to homer in three straight at-bats...Went 3-for-5 with two home runs, including a walk-off two-run homer in the 10th on Sept. 6 vs. Cincinnati...Was the first Met since Curtis Granderson (9/17/16) with multiple homers in a game, including a walk-off...Courtesy of Elias...Is the youngest Met and the first third baseman in franchise history to accomplish the feat...Courtesy of Sarah Langs...Drove in a career-high four runs.

POSTSEASON: Established Mets single Postseason records in RBI (14) and multi-hit games (seven)...Had the second-most home runs (five), hits (18) and total bases (35) by a Met in a single Postseason...Had multi-hit games in each game of the NLDS...Joined Todd Zeile (2000) and Daniel Murphy (2015) as the only players in franchise history to record multiple hits in four straight Postseason games...Recorded a game-tying single in the eighth in Game 1 of the NLDS at Philadelphia...Went 3-for-4 with a double and two home runs, including a game-tying homer in the ninth in Game 2 of the NLDS at Philadelphia...Became the seventh player in franchise history to multiple homers in a Postseason game and became the fourth Met to have three extra-base hits in a Postseason game...At 24 years and 300 days, was the third-youngest player in Major League history to record 10 or more total bases in a Postseason game...Courtesy of Sarah Langs...Hit a grand slam in Game 2 of the NLCS at Los Angeles-NL...Was the third grand slam in Mets Postseason history.

2023

Ranked sixth in the NL and 17th in the Majors in average exit velocity at 92.5 MPH (min. 200 PA)... Was tied for third in the majors among rookies with six homers in September... Was tied for eighth in the NL among rookies with 11 RBI in September... Homered in his first Major League game of the year on May 17 vs. Tampa Bay...Became the seventh-youngest Met (23 years, 157 days old) to homer in his first game of a season...Darryl Strawberry is the youngest at 22 years, 21 days (1984)... Homered off a 100.8 mph fastball from Aroldis Chapman on Aug. 29 vs. Texas...Was the fastest pitch a Met hit for a home run in the pitch tracking era.

2022

Made his major league debut Sept. 11 at Miami... Notched his first career hit, a pinch-hit RBI single, on Sept. 15 vs. Pittsburgh... Belted his first career home run on September 24 at Oakland.

MINOR LEAGUE REVIEW: Posted a 1.140 OPS against LHP at Triple-A, going 37-112 (.330) with 13 home runs.

2021

Named a Double-A All-Star...Tied for fourth in the AA-Northeast Division with 22 home runs and led all Mets farmhands with 25 long balls.

2020

Was part of the Mets' 60-Player Pool at the club's Alternate Training Site in Brooklyn.

2019

Named the Mets Minor League Hitter of the Year...Led Columbia in doubles (27), home runs (12), and RBI (62).

2018

Was named a Mets Organizational All-Star by MiLB.com.

2017

Made his professional debut with the GCL Mets (R) before spending the final week of the season at Kingsport (R) of the Appalachian League.