Baseball-Reference has splits for the last seven days, the last 14 and the last 28. Ideally, we would look at the last 21 days but that’s not an option. So, here are how the Mets are doing in the last 14:
47 PA – Brandon Nimmo, .895 OPS
45 PA – Pete Alonso, .608 OPS
45 PA – Francisco Lindor, .494 OPS
42 PA – Jeff McNeil, .617 OPS
39 PA – Starling Marte, .848 OPS
38 PA – Mark Canha, .773 OPS
28 PA – Eduardo Escobar, .940 OPS
22 PA – Daniel Vogelbach, .381 OPS
18 PA – Darin Ruf, .174 OPS
17 PA – James McCann, .812 OPS
17 PA – Tomas Nido, .427 OPS
15 PA – Tyler Naquin, .400 OPS
It’s easy to see where the problem lies – the heart of the order. Alonso’s been bad, Lindor’s been worse and the DHs have been horrible. You don’t want to overreact to a small sample. But you don’t want to do nothing, either. We’re not privy to what Buck Showalter and the coaches are doing behind closed doors. But perhaps they need to do more in the public domain. Last night, McNeil hit before Vogelbach, so that’s something. Unfortunately, McNeil went 0-4 and yelled and pouted in the dugout. May today be better.
Speaking of today, there’s a day/night doubleheader with the first game at 12:35 with Chris Bassitt getting the start. Hopefully that means that Sunshine Superman Jacob deGrom asked to pitch the night game.
Let’s hope we can find some magic. Thank God we won the first game of the double header. Need to sweep.
I know Alonso has good RBI and home run numbers, but he has done nothing over the last six to eight weeks. Hard to win when your only legit poeer hitter goes on a long slump.
Yeah, I know the Mets need to worry about starters in the off season, but they need another big bat like Judge.