Tom Brennan - HONESTLY, IS THERE A CURSE IN METSVILLE?

"HONESTLY, IS THERE A CURSE IN METSVILLE?"

I honestly wonder more and more about that as time goes by.

Of course, we have signings like David Wright, Yoenis Cespedes and Jed Lowrie, where enough money to fund a small third world country was contractually obligated by the Mets with very, very little to show for it.  

Curse?  Or just bad luck?  Seems like a Mets Curse.

Was it a deal with the devil so the ball would get by Buckner?

Jake deGrom is another example of the Mets Curse.

Last year, in 2018, Jake had a 1.70 ERA, and a Cy Young award, and yet somehow, inexplicably, after winning his first 2 starts magnificently, he went an astounding 3-6 in 19 starts mid-season despite an ERA of under 2.00 in those 19 starts.  

The baseball world shook its head, wondering how a guy could pitch so well over 19 starts and win just 3 of them.

You knew, even as a long-time Mets fan, that such a freak occurrence, even in Metsville, was preposterous and couldn't happen again.

You were relieved when he was magnificent in his first 2 starts of 2019 and was 2-0.  "See, it isn't happening again - not even here."

But then it did again.  Somehow, it did - again.

After those first 2 magnificnet wins in 2019, he has gone 1-6 in his next 12 starts.

Sure, this year he is a little more culpable, as he gave up 5 or more runs in 3 of those 12 starts.

But in the other 9, he has allowed just 14 earned runs.

Good enough to go 8-3 in that stretch.  

Yet he goes just 1-6 in 12 games.

Combine those 2 stretches, the one in 2018 and the one this year, and they add up to 31 starts, an ERA right around 2.00  -  and a record of 4-12.

That's right, 4-12 in 31 starts with an ERA of 2.00.  

That's 4 Jake wins in those 31 games, with an ERA of 2.00.

Incomprehensible.

Insane?  Or a curse?

I dunno.

Then there is Sugar.  

Sugar (Edwin Diaz) was amazingly magnificent last season - for Seattle.

He was 0-4, OK, not good there, but the rest was mind-blowing: a 1.96 ERA, and a stunning 57 saves in 61 opportunities, and equally stunning K #s.

This season, he was Sugar at the start - pure Sugar.  

Through April 28, for the Mets, he saved every opportunity, hadn't lost a game, had an 0.84 ERA.  

Since then, he is 1-3 with 2 blown saves, and actually a 3rd, for the yet to be completed game from last night.  His two biggest meltdowns?  

Giving up 2 runs in the 9th yesterday, blowing a 4-2 lead.

And surrendering 4 runs in the 9th against LA, blowing a 3 run 9th innings lead and losing that game, 10 days ago.  

His 0.84 ERA on April 28 has quickly climbed to 3.38 through June 13.

As he has gotten about 3 steps shakier than his brilliant first month as a Met, I start to wonder - is the Curse creeping into the Sugar?

Or is it just that Jake started last night and the blown save was because the seemingly cursed Jake started.

I dunno - you tell me.  

All I know is I find myself in conversations with friends a lot, saying:

 "Do you think this team is cursed?"  

Most say yes.

After last night's sickening DH loss:

The vast majority are calling for:

THE EXORCIST!