How Mets rookie won a job — and clubhouse — this spring: ‘He’s elite’
The New York Mets announced that top prospect Carson Benge made the team's Opening Day roster on Monday.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Francisco Lindor was once in Carson Benge’s shoes.
Lindor was also a first-round pick and No. 1 prospect, climbing up to the big leagues with an organization enduring a lengthy championship drought. For Lindor, that was more than a decade ago in Cleveland.
As the Mets ’ starting shortstop now enters his 12th year in the big leagues, he’s been around long enough to have seen countless hot-shot prospects get the call and try to live up to the hype. So, what does Lindor think of Benge — the Mets’ new starting right fielder — after observing him at Mets camp? “The Mets got this one right, for sure,” Lindor told NJ.
com. “He’s elite. ” Benge was told that he made the Mets’ Opening Day roster on Monday, one day after the club’s final exhibition game of the spring.