Wednesday represented an annual moment of hope around baseball as the All-Star Futures Game rosters were announced, a chance to honor and highlight the youngest, best and brightest from each organization.

The Mets’ lone representative, while a high-upside slugger in Ryan Clifford, is hitting under .200.

It has been that kind of season for the Mets, whose struggles have not been limited to Queens. Their farm system, if not the outright disaster that the major league club has been, has nonetheless disappointed, particularly in comparison to a 2025 campaign filled with revelations.

“We’ve had regression in our farm system,” Steve Cohen acknowledged on “The Show with Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman” this week. “Now, I’m told that development isn’t linear, OK? It isn’t like some straight line where everything goes up.”