{"id":950533,"date":"2026-11-03T02:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950533\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:04:16","slug":"mets-news-carson-benge-named-finalist-for-nl-rookie-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950533\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets News: Carson Benge named finalist for NL Rookie of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s official: Carson Benge has been named one of three finalists for the National League Rookie of the Year Award, along with the Reds\u2019 Sal Stewart and the Cardinals\u2019 JJ Wetherholt. The winner will be announced live on MLB Network on November 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The NL ROTY race is the most <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=87443X1797504&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Ftake-a-deep-dive-into-a-four-way-2026-nl-rookie-of-the-year-race\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">hotly contested<\/a> of this year\u2019s major awards cycle, with each of the AL awards having clear frontrunners and the other NL awards expected to result in a pair of unanimous decisions (the Cubs\u2019 Pete Crow-Armstrong for MVP and the Brewers\u2019 Jacob Misiorowski for Cy Young). Stewart led the field in offensive counting stats, posting 32 homers and 111 RBIs, the most by a rookie since Pete Alonso drove in 120 for the Mets in 2019. Wetherholt, despite a late-season trip to the 10-day injured list that that hindered his chances, still managed to lead all NL rookies with 4.6 fWAR on the back of his 100th-percentile Fielding Run Value and 91st-percentile Baserunning Run Value).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Benge, the most well-rounded of the bunch, led the majors in Arm Value and became the 18th rookie to record a 20\/20 season (the first was former Mets World Series champion Tommie Agee). Benge bolstered his case by batting .321 with an .896 OPS over his final 48 games, and .396 with a 1.080 OPS over his 13 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Nolan McLean, who posted a 3.16 ERA with 194 strikeouts over 179.2 innings after his cup of coffee in the majors in 2025, will likely finish in fourth place \u2014 just shy of finalist status. McLean was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazinavenue.com\/new-york-mets-news\/102302\/nolan-mclean-wins-gold-glove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">named a Gold Glove Award winner<\/a> on Sunday night, becoming the first rookie pitcher ever to win the award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 23-year-old Benge is the Mets\u2019 first finalist for the Rookie of the Year Award since Kodai Senga finished as runner-up to the D-backs\u2019 Corbin Carroll in 2023. Benge is also the first Mets position player to receive any votes for the award since Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez, who finished tied for seventh in 2020. The Mets have had six winners over their 65-year history: Tom Seaver (1967), Jon Matlack (1972), Darryl Strawberry (1983), Dwight Gooden (1984), Jacob deGrom (2014), and Alonso (2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: Carson Benge has been named one of three finalists for the National League Rookie of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,508778,591,85],"class_list":["post-950533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mets-news","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}