Scott is set to make his major league debut tonight against the Rays.
Tonight in Tampa Bay, Christian Scott will take the mound for the Mets in his major league debut. The 24-year-old right-handed pitcher has put up impressive strikeout and walk rates in five starts with the Triple-A Syracuse Mets to start his season, and he has a 3.20 ERA at that level in 25.1 innings of work.
Coming into spring training, Scott ranked fifth on Amazin’ Avenue’s list of the Mets’ top prospects—and was the highest-ranking pitcher on the list. Here’s some what Steve Sypa wrote about him at the time:
Scott worked on his four-seam fastball during the Arizona Fall League and over the winter of 2022, and its emergence may be one of the reasons the right-hander was so good in 2023. Sitting in the mid-90s and topping out in the high-90s, the pitch is difficult for batters to square up on thanks to its speed and rising action. Additionally, Scott’s two-seam fastball was a solid pitch in its own right. Sitting in the mid-90s, the pitch has a lot of arm-side and sinking movement, making it difficult for batters to square up on. In and of itself, it is not so much a a swing-and-miss, bat-missing strikeout pitch as it is a weak contact pitch, eliciting weak fly balls as batters swing under it and ground balls as batters swing over it.
He pairs it with a slider and a changeup, the latter of which also improved over the winter of 2022. Whereas Scott threw his fastball and slider combination roughly 85% of the time in 2022, the right-hander has been utilizing his changeup a bit more often this season as it is a better pitch that he has more confidence in. He also occasionally mixes in a curveball, but it is generally reserved as a get-me-over offering.