Since returning from the IL, Starling Marte has posted a .235/.308/.296 line in 92 PA. And that’s with a .322 BABIP. He’s walking a decent amount but he’s producing like a Triple-A backup catcher. And he has 23 strikeouts in this span, a 25% K-rate. The Mets are finally playing Tyrone Taylor over Harrison Bader. Now they have to find a guy to play instead of Marte. If only Jeff McNeil was still healthy.
Carlos Mendoza has benched Jesse Winker versus LHP but he really has to consider benching Marte, instead. It probably doesn’t make any difference with Chris Sale, as the expectation should be that Winker would be as helpless as Marte. But it the Brewers throw a LHP in one of the final three games of the year, my hope is that Winker is in right field.
Common sense says that Winker and Marte should platoon. This year Marte has a 860 OPS vs LHP and Winker has a 791 OPS vs RHP. What is gumming the works is Marte has a 637 OPS and Winker has a 395 OPS in September. If Lindor plays tonight would Mendoza have the gumption to play Acuna in center field and Taylor in right field?
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Funny, because just before I discovered this, I’d been thinking how regularly they bore me
What else bothers me is when some site/merchant/service/whatever tells me something like
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Serious red flag, because I often forget about my memberships, and thus continue to be stroked even though I’m not using it. For example, often a week or more passes between my visits to FG
Anyway, see ya later FG
Happy for a couple of days off is it provides additional healing time for Lindor to come back stronger. Hard to imagine them taking Acuna out of the lineup with Lindor back, so given Acuna’s ability to make the routine plays at SS, maybe Lindor starts back as the DH. Now what do they do with JD Martinez who simply stopped hitting? Winker deserves a shot back out over Marte even as both of their bats have cooled off. Bottom line is it needs to be Nimmo, Alonso and Alvarez continuing to step up. Gotta play Brewers hard all weekend but they are not going to lay down just because they are already in. Keep the faith everybody.
Much is written about the Mets starting rotation, and they deserve it, but the defense deserves some notice. Yes, there have been hiccups, but overall the Mets have not embarrassed themselves.