SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- On Tuesday night at NBT Bank Stadium, Brandon Sproat leaned on the dugout rail as his teammate, Nolan McLean , was carving up the Triple-A Charlotte Knights. A cutter on the outside corner froze one hitter. A sweeper, McLean’s signature pitch, nearly forced another to a knee. A running four-seamer sent still another flailing.

Sproat watched intently. He remained there long after McLean retired to the clubhouse, having authored another scoreless performance. In a game that became a blowout win for Syracuse, Sproat spent the latter innings parked on that dugout rail, fiddling with a baseball.

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He is not long for Syracuse and NBT Bank Park. Neither of them is.

Those two are part of the Mets’ finest crop of arms in a decade, the type of

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