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Predictions for the 2020 Mets

by Brian Joura

Each year with the predictions column I start by going back to the previous year’s piece. The goal is to get more than 50 percent right, while not making boring predictions. Not once in all of the years of doing this have more turned out right than wrong. Out of last year’s batch, only five were right, which was one more correct prediction than the previous season. Just missed getting another one right, as Jason Vargas finished with nine Quality Starts, one shy of my prediction of 10.

But you can’t be afraid to be wrong. No one wants to read a bunch of predictions like “the Mets will have a guy come down with a season-ending injury.” So here are a group of predictions that will range from head tilting to eyebrow-raising to outright aggressive. But these are all things I believe will happen, not ones made simply to be controversial.

It’s more of a challenge than normal to do predictions this year. Or, to be more accurate, it requires the reader to keep in mind that we’re only having 37% of a full season. If a total doesn’t seem to be all that impressive, or difficult to achieve, keep in mind the length of the season.

Dominic Smith will make more starts than J.D. Davis

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