Mets Top Prospect Embraces Debut with Gratitude, Grit and Bullpen Mindset

Mets top prospect embraces debut with gratitude, grit and bullpen mindset

NEW YORK — Over the last two years, right-hander Dom Hamel, the Mets’ No. 10 pitching prospect (MLB Pipeline), has occupied the same locker in spring training.

Now a reliever, Mets’ Dom Hamel gets call up to make big league debut

A point of pride for Mets right-hander Dom Hamel has always been his durability as a starting pitcher. Since his first full professional season in 2022, he’s thrown no fewer than 119 innings, and threw 124 or more in Double-A and Triple-A in each of his last two seasons. So when the Mets came to the 26-year-old farmhand earlier this season with the idea to have him work out of the bullpen, he was admittedly “bitter.” The Mets sold him on a clear…