PIITB By JD- Weekly Recap

 PIITB by JD- Weekly Recap 

 

The Mets have been pretty mediocre over the last week once again. When the offense showed up, the pitching falters and when the pitching shows up the offense is nowhere to be seen. It is time for the Mets to start putting together the two and show us what they can really do. 

 

I do not believe we are far off from seeing that happening. The offense has seemingly turned the corner with Francisco Alvarez on FIRE. Pete and Alvy are providing much-needed power to the Mets lineup. Alvarez has 3 home runs in the last week with an 885 season OPS and Pete has gone yard twice as well. Pete now sits at 20 homers.

 

Cubs series (Record 1-2)

Stroman shut the Mets down for 8 innings in game 2, you can imagine how that went. 

The lone bright spot pitching-wise of this series was Carlos Carrasco. He went 6.2 innings of 1 run ball in the series' final game. He saved the Mets from the sweep and the offense put on a show. 

 

Rockies series (Record: 1-2)

This series was unacceptable on the pitching end. The Mets scored 17 runs in the final 2 games of the series and lost both. Verlander did not show up and even with Alvy helping the fight back with a 3 run homer, Brigham gave the lead right back and Smith gave up two as well. 

Drew Smith has me worried. I am a big fan of Drew, but he has been playing poorly in the few opportunities he has been given in the last few weeks, I have a feeling he may be pitching through some dead arm as the Mets desperately need quality middle innings. Megill and Nogosek did not fair any better in game 3 giving up 9 ER combined and the Mets fell 11-10.

 

Notes:

The pitching needs to be more consistent. The bullpen is a legitimate issue. The Mets are going to need to add another arm at the deadline. There are too many mop up guys in the pen. Dominic Leone, Stephen Nogosek, Tommy Hunter, and Josh Walker can not be pitching as many innings as they are. That is partially on the starters not going deep and partially on Billy for the lack of depth. The Mets are definitely missing Edwin Diaz right about now. 

 

Alvarez is legit, that is all. 

 

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