Mets360 - Final report card for the 2020 Mets

 

By Brian Joura October 1, 2020

Here are the final grades for the 2020 Mets. To qualify for a grade, you needed to amass either 100 PA or 19 IP. A failure to reach those totals results in either an incomplete (Luis Guillorme) or F (Paul Sewald). The grades are a combination of role on the club, preseason expectations and actual production. This makes it possible to get a Grade A as a middle reliever, even if no one actually did. On to the grades!

Pete Alonso – It wasn’t a particularly good year for MLB first basemen. Only six 1B qualified for the leaderboards and had a wRC+ of 125 or more and Alonso wasn’t one of them. Last year there were 10. Alonso showed signs of breaking out down the stretch and if it was a 162-game season, perhaps he would have finished with numbers closer to the ones he put up in his rookie season. But it wasn’t and he didn’t. Grade: C-

Robinson Cano – The veteran enjoyed his best year since 2013 thanks to above average marks in ISO (.228) and BABIP (.319). And range aside, his defense was pretty solid, too. It’s a huge question mark if he could have kept it up over a full season but that’s not what 2020 required. Grade: A-

Michael Conforto – After back-to-back seasons with wRC+ numbers in the 120s, Conforto put up a 157 mark this year. Only a killjoy would point out his .412 BABIP, the fact that he struck out in 41.3% of his PA in his last 10 games and that he ended the season on the IL. But much like with Cano, this grade is based on what did happen, not what might have happened in a full season or what might happen in 2021. Grade: A

J.D. Davis – As expected, Davis saw a significant drop in his BABIP, a fall of 37 points. But it was also a 78-point drop in ISO that helped define his season. He was still decent as a hitter but his defense, which seemed promising when he first switched back to the infield, was what really ended up making him a below-average player. Grade: D+

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