New York Mets
The New York Mets selected Thompson in the fourth round,with the 119th overall selection,of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. [10] After signing with the Mets,Thompson made his professional debut for the Brooklyn Cyclones of the Low-A New York–Penn League. [11] He spent the whole 2015 season in Brooklyn,where he batted .218 with three home runs and 22 RBI in 59 games. Thompson spent 2016 with both the Columbia Fireflies of the Single-A South Atlantic League and the St. Lucie Mets of the High-A Florida State League;he ended 2016 with a combined .280 batting average,11 home runs and 95 RBI between both teams.
In 2017,Thompson played for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies of the Double-A Eastern League,where he posted a .263 batting average with 16 home runs and 68 RBI in 133 games. [12] He played in only 25 games in 2018 due to injury. In 2019,Thompson split the year between Double-A Binghamton and the Triple-A Syracuse Mets,slashing .217/.290/.348 with 9 home runs and 45 RBI in 123 combined games.
Thompson did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [13] In 2021,he spent the majority of the year with Triple-A Syracuse,batting .228/.329/.470 with 13 home runs,39 RBI,and 10 stolen bases in 67 games. He elected free agency following the season on November 7,2021. [14]
