Eric Orze beat cancer twice and had the pandemic end his college career. Now all he wants is a call to the Mets

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SYRACUSE — The Mets’ most cursed prospect is eternally grateful for his plight.

Eric Orze has skilled greater than anybody ought to expertise, a lot much less a 24-year-old child. He leapt from one most cancers to a different, and the second time it was more durable to punch out. He thought he was previous the well being scares and in a position to get again to pitching when the coronavirus hit and reduce brief his closing season of school baseball. The draft that he awaited all his life was shrunken to 5 rounds on account of the pandemic.

Baseball is famously full of failure, however few have handled the struggles that the budding Mets reliever has encountered.

And few have handled them higher.