With their first round selection in the 2025 draft, the 38th overall pick, the Mets selected Mitch Voit, a two-way player from the University of Michigan.
Milwaukee native Mitch Voit attended Whitefish Bay High School in the eponymous Whitefish Bay, a suburb of Milwaukee. Hoping to one day follow in the footsteps of alumnus Craig Counsell, Voit put on a show in his senior season, hitting .581/.632/.892 with 10 doubles, 2 triples, 5 home runs, 33 stolen bases in 34 attempts, and 10 walks to 7 strikeouts. All while doing that, he also appeared in 10 games as a pitcher, going a perfect 10-0, posting a 0.45 ERA in 46.2 innings with 16 hits allowed, 11 walks, and 78 strikeouts. He won a slew of prestigious awards, including the 2022 Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year (Wisconsin) Award. Considered one of the best players available in the 2022 MLB Draft from Wisconsin, Voit went unselected in the draft and honored his commitment to the University of Michigan.
In his first year at the University of Michigan, the 18-year-old appeared in 54 games and hit .267/.338/.439 with 9 doubles, 1 triple, 7 home runs, 0 stolen bases, and 18 walks to 50 strikeouts. Concurrently, he appeared in 19 games as a pitcher, making one start, and posted a 3.25 ERA in 36.0 innings with 31 hits allowed, 12 walks, and 25 strikeouts. That summer, he played for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod Collegiate League and went 3-11 in 6 games while throwing 3.0 scoreless innings in 2 games, with 2 hits allowed, 1 walk, and 4 strikeouts.
Returning to Michigan for his sophomore season in 2024, Voit once again pulled double duty, hitting and pitching. As a hitter, he appeared in 59 games and hit .292/.373/.572 with 20 doubles, 2 triples, 14 home runs, 5 stolen bases in 7 attempts, and 23 walks to 61 strikeouts. As a pitcher, he appeared in 10 games, all starts, and posted a 5.49 ERA in 62.1 innings, allowing 72 hits, walking 16, and striking out 41. Voit started his last game on April 21 and did not pitch again that spring, despite still getting into games for the Wolverines; later that summer, Voit underwent internal brace surgery on his right elbow, his pitching arm.
In 2025, his junior season, Voit did not pitch, keeping the possibility open to returning to the mound but focusing on hitting for the season. Appearing in 56 games, he hit .346/.471/.668 with 17 doubles, 4 triples, 14 home runs, 14 stolen bases in 16 attempts, and 40 walks to 34 strikeouts.
At the plate, Voit stands square with his hands at about eye level and his bat head angled at 1:30. He swings with a slight leg kick and there is very little wasted movement in his set-up or swing. Voit is a very well-polished hitter who uses the entire field, though he sometimes can get pull happy. Since focusing only on hitting in 2025, he has significantly improved his approach, making much better swing decisions, walking more, and cutting down on his strikeout rate exponentially.
Thanks to his plate discipline, when he makes contact, it is generally quality contact, with an average exit velocity of 91 MPH, a 90th percentile exit velocity of 105.6 MPH, and an average 18.2-degree launch angle on batted ball events of 95 MPH or greater. Most of his power is to his pull side, but when he barrels the ball and lifts it, he has no problems shooting home runs back up the middle.
Voit has not shown any particular splits or weaknesses thus far in his baseball career. He has performed similarly against left-handed pitchers and right-handed pitchers. He also has not shown any particular weaknesses against any specific pitches or pitch categories. While he has put up slightly better numbers against off-speed pitches, his numbers are still comparable to those against fastballs and against breaking balls.
In addition to being a power threat, Voit is athletic and an above-average runner who has the potential to be a stolen base threat as well.
Defensively, Voit has only recently found a home where he excels. In 2025, he appeared in all 56 games he played at second base, but over the course of his career at Michigan, he has appeared in 34 games at first base, 51 games at third base, 1 game at shortstop, and in both corner outfield positions. Scouts and evaluators seem to all agree that Voit is best suited at second base currently, but thanks to his strong arm and athleticism, he could make the outfield his long-term home with more reps and development there.
On the mound, when he last pitched, Voit possessed a fastball that sits around 90 MPH, topping out at 93 MPH, a low-80s gyro slider, a mid-70s curveball, and a changeup that hovered around 80 MPH. While he was drafted as a two-way player, Voit’s upside is more as a hitter than a pitcher, and his elbow health must be factored in if he ever gets back on the mound.