Brett Baty makes Mets’ looming roster decision even tougher

On Wednesday morning, manager Carlos Mendoza surveyed the fringes of the Mets position-player group and acknowledged, “It’s not going to be an easy decision” regarding who leaves when Jeff McNeil returns, which is expected Friday.

By Wednesday afternoon, Brett Baty had made that already-hard decision a little bit more difficult.

In what essentially amounted to the final tryout before a more definitive roster is decided by Friday, Baty added one last item to his résumé: his first home run of the season, one that was demolished.

In the second inning against Phillies ace Zack Wheeler, Baty saw a cutter cut across the plate and hammered it to the second deck in right field for a two-run dinger that left his bat at 113.9 mph — the hardest-hit ball of Baty’s major league career, the hardest-hit homer by a Met this season and the eighth hardest-hit homer by anyone this year.

“That’s one of the ones where you don’t even feel it coming off the barrel,” Baty said after he was responsible for the only runs scored off Wheeler in an eventual 4-3, 10-inning win at Citi Field.

The homer gave the Mets a chance in the game and may have given Baty a stronger chance of sticking.