Minor League Mondays: Chris Suero Puts Himself On The Map With Solid 2025

The end of the regular season has been a disappointment for the New York Mets, but there is hope that their future will be brighter. Three of the Mets' full-season minor league affiliates made the postseason, with High-A Brooklyn winning their league and AA Binghamton advancing to this week's Eastern League championship series. One prospect who played a key role on both teams is catcher Chris Suero, who is the focus of the final edition of Minor League Mondays for the 2025 season.

Chris Suero had a strong year for two different minor league affiliates.

Suero, 21, is a development success story for the Mets after signing with the organization as an amateur free agent in 2022 out of the Dominican Republic. Few had high hopes for Suero, who received just a $10,000 signing bonus, but he put in strong work in the lower levels before pinging on the radar with scouts in 2024, when he quickly earned a promotion to High-A Brooklyn. Suero began 2025 in Brooklyn and played very well, hitting .240 with 13 home runs, 51 RBI and an .837 OPS in 74 games. The Mets were impressed with what they saw from Suero, promoting him again to AA Binghamton, where he has played a key role for the Rumble Ponies' second-half postseason push.

Even though he hasn't hit for a high average in Binghamton, Suero still has eight extra base hits and 17 RBI in 41 games with a .698 OPS. While he is listed as a catcher, Suero is more of a utility player with the ability to play first base and the outfield thanks to his strong speed, which has allowed him to swipe 35 bases this season after nabbing 20 bags a year ago.

A Bronx native, Suero's rapid rise feels similar to that of T.J. Rivera, another Bronx guy who signed as an undrafted free agent and played his way to the majors. While Rivera was more of an average guy, Suero focuses on power first and has a good eye at the plate, which could increase his ceiling as he progresses through the minor leagues. The fact that Suero can play multiple positions is intriguing since it gives the Mets a potential weapon if he can reach the majors as a backup catcher with the ability to fill in at other spots, which can be valuable in an era where big league teams carry just four bench players. Few prospects had as big a rise as Suero did in 2025 and he is now rated as the Mets' 15th-best prospect according to MLB.com. The Mets are also sending Suero to the Arizona Fall League after the minor league season concludes to get more reps, a sign of faith in his ability to continue developing into a viable candidate to contribute on their 40-man roster at some point in the near future.

Suero's development comes at an intriguing time for the Mets, who have precious little catching depth in the upper minors, as evidenced by their struggles to fill the position when Francisco Alvarez has needed trips to the injured list. The only catcher on the 40-man roster besides Alvarez and backup Luis Torrens is Hayden Senger, who brings a good glove but offers next to nothing at the plate against big league pitching. Kevin Parada has the pedigree of a first-round pick but has largely been a bust, taking almost four years to reach AAA despite being a highly-touted collegiate player. If the Mets opt not to protect Parada from the Rule V Draft this year, it would be a sign that they believe Suero has a better chance to be a future contributor at the major league level, which is a bonus since Suero has one more year before he needs to be protected from Rule V.

Catchers take notoriously longer to develop, and since Suero picked up catching later in his amateur career expect the Mets to let him repeat AA to start 2026. The goal here would be to see if Suero can get up to AAA and be an option to replace Senger on the 40-man roster by the end of next season, with a chance he could become a longer-term backup to Alvarez if the Mets opt to move on from Torrens at some point. The fact that Suero has reached this point as a lightly-regarded prospect at signing is a huge win for the Mets' player development program, which has improved rapidly since Steve Cohen bought the team five years ago.