If you like to have fun watching baseball, you should make a point to see some games that feature Chris Suero this year. Born in The Bronx in 2004, Suero joined the Mets as an international free agent after moving to his parents’ native Dominican Republic, and he got his professional career started as he played for the Mets’ team in the Dominican Summer League in 2022.
The short version of this story is this: Suero is a catcher who’s good at stealing bases. The vast majority of catchers in professional baseball aren’t all that fast, and even the ones who aren’t glacial on the basepaths don’t tend to attempt stolen bases.
In his age-21 season last year, Suero stole 35 bases and was caught stealing just eight times, and he hit .233/.379/.407 with 16 home runs in 475 plate appearances. And while he spends the majority of his time at catcher, he has experience in left field and at first base, as he’s logged some time at each of those positions since his move to stateside ball in Single-A Port St. Lucie and High-A Brooklyn in 2021.
Following a strong showing in Brooklyn to start the 2025 season—an .837 OPS with 13 home runs in 301 plate appearances—Suero earned a promotion to Double-A Binghamton, where he spent the remainder of the regular season. He struggled at the plate from there, as he managed to finish with just a .697 OPS in his time with the Rumble Ponies, but he fared much better in his stint in the Arizona Fall League following the season, as he hit .283/.353/.567 in the fifteen games that he played there.
Having ranked 17th on our list of the Mets’ top prospects for 2026 before the trade that sent Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat to the Brewers, there’s plenty more to read about him in Steve Sypa’s prospect list profile and in the thoughts that Lukas Vlahos and Steve shared following the publication of the full list.
While Suero is in major league camp as a non-roster invitee at the moment, he is certain to begin the year in the minors. Based on what transpired last season, it also seems incredibly likely that he’ll start the year back in Binghamton. If he shows significant improvement at the plate while continuing to be an incredibly fun player to watch, you’d have to imagine the Mets would bump him up to Triple-A Syracuse by the end of the season.
There’s no guarantee that will happen, of course, as players can stall out at either of the upper levels of the minors. Given his age and athleticism, though, it’s much more fun to buy in to Suero’s well-rounded skill set and go into this season looking forward to seeing what he can do. And if you’re able to catch a Rumble Ponies or Syracuse Mets game in person or on MiLB.tv this year, you should make a point to watch Suero play baseball.