Mets’ Ryan Lambert is the talk of training camp with triple-digit heat: ‘He could be special’

The kid was an afterthought on draft night. That’s how this works sometimes. Everyone argued about first-round ceilings and bonus pools while the New York Mets quietly grabbed a reliever in the eighth round who now looks like he might crash the big-league bullpen before half that class even sniffs Double-A.

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