Ryan Clifford’s Mets’ entrance couldn’t have gone much better.
The new Mets prospect — who came over in the Justin Verlander trade — homered in his first at-bat and reached base four times while scoring twice with the High-A Brooklyn Cyclones in a 6-3 win over the Jersey Shore BlueClaws.
With a run already in during the first inning, Alex Ramirez smoked a double to center, to set the stage for the 20-year-old’s first Mets at-bat.
Clifford — now the Mets’ No. 6 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline — worked the count full against starter Mitch Neunborn before crushing a middle-middle pitch deep to right field for his 20th total homer of the year and 17th in the High-A South Atlantic League.
Two innings later, he worked a walk and scored a run.
Clifford later added a single and another walk.
“Obviously had a pretty good result tonight,” Clifford told Michael Avallone of MLB.com after the game “But it’s also the same game that I’m playing.
“I look at it as a new opportunity and a new chance to take things to the next level.”
Known for his raw power (graded at 55), the first baseman/outfielder was taken in the 11th round by the Astros in last year’s draft.
Ryan Clifford has big power but there are questions about his plate discipline. Getty Images“Clifford is another good prospect who has feel to hit with power. Sneaky, really good prospect, great swing, should be a good offensive 1B when all said and done,” a scout told The Post’s Sherman.
Before he came to the Mets, Clifford racked up 20 homers with an .898 OPS in 383 professional at-bats.
He came over to the Mets with new No. 4 prospect Drew Gilbert, who was assigned to Double-A Binghamton.
As for Verlander, he is now with Houston as the Astros look to win a second straight World Series.
He told reporters at Yankee Stadium on Thursday that he was surprised about how the Mets’ season turned out after coming in with such high expectations.
“We kind of got off on the wrong foot. Everything that could go wrong did early,” Verlander said.
“Even though we started playing some good baseball at times, we never really hit our stride where we were kind of banging on all cylinders. I can’t answer exactly why that is.”
