With their seventeenth-round selection in the 2025 MLB Draft, the 523rd overall pick, the Mets selected Sam Robertson, a shortstop from Northwest Shoals Community College in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Birmingham, Alabama native Sam Robertson attended Oxford High School in the eponymous Oxford, Alabama. A varsity football and baseball player, he focused only on baseball beginning in his junior year and the results spoke for themselves, as the youngster turned into an All-State shortstop who was considered a priority follow for scouts and evaluators as one of the best players in the state. After he graduated, he went undrafted in the 2023 MLB Draft and honored his commitment to Auburn University.
Robertson did not get much playing time at Auburn in his freshman season. The infielder appeared in six games as a pinch runner and was hit by a pitch in his only official plate appearance that year. He did the most that he could with the limited in-game action he saw, stealing three bases in those six pinch running assignments, scoring twice. He played for the Alexandria Aces of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Summer League after the season ended to get more playing time under his belt.
Electing to get make it on the field over languishing on the bench, Robertson transferred to Northwest Shoals Community College in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Using his situation as fuel to put up the best numbers possible, to show his former coaches that they had missed out and to show potential scouts that he was a professional-grade player regardless of where he was plying the trade. And that he did. Appearing in 55 games for the Northwest Shoals Patriots, the 20-year-old hit .362/.469/.546 with 14 doubles, 5 triples, 4 home runs, 60 stolen bases in 69 attempts- a school record for successful steals- and drew 33 walks to 26 strikeouts.
Robertson stands square at the plate, holding his hands up at roughly the shoulders and angling his bat head at 2:30 behind his head and swinging with a slight leg kick and short, simple stroke. There is not much power projection in his thin 6’2”, 180-pound frame, but the right-hander shows plenty of speed. The infielder has posted above-average-to-plus times in the 60-yard dash and has demonstrated himself to be a strong base stealer. In the infield, Robertson has plenty of range and a strong arm. His arm has been clocked around 90 MPH, and thanks to his speed, he has plenty of infield range.