“These are not your early season or early-summer New York Metropolitans. This game was certainly a fun outlier to dive into, but this team actually has some pop in their lineup that has a high ceiling for offensive firepower.
Per Hit Tracker, on August 24th they managed to put together 2,878 feet of home runs with an average batted ball velocity on the home runs over 104 MPH.
Sure, the Nationals have underachieved, and they’ve just now started to trot out their projected optimal lineup, but these Mets can be fun and, dare I say, scary should they ride this wave into the postseason.”
Source: Steven Martano, Beyond the Boxscore
This has GIFs of all eight home runs from Monday night, so we’ll forgive him for saying “should” instead of “when.”
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As much as I’d love to see some of those outspoken Nationals eat crow, it’s still one step at a time and only 17 games to lose it all.