Most Mets Hit Like Little Itty Bitty Guppies
Your eyes tell you what's wrong. All four of mine do.
The hitters are lousy - except for Pete Alonso. 71 RBIs in 112 games played is not overwhelming, but is totally acceptable. Of course, he is no higher than being in the bottom of the top 35 major leaguers in RBIs, to look at it another way.
The rest?
JD (Johnny) Davis is career .206 with runners in scoring position, in over 200 ABs. My mechanic knew the cause immediately: Busted clutch. They tell me he has been up 5 times with the bags full in 2021 and fanned...5 times. Not 100% correct - he had a sac fly in a 6th at bat. 2 for 17 with 2 outs. Buh Bye.
Jeffy McNeil is valuable if he is hitting .300. At .242, he is not. .122 over the last 14 days, .215 with RISP. Ugh,
Javy Baez has 145 Ks in 101 games - and some folks griped about Dave Kingman, who only fanned 672 times in 664 Mets games. Baez has cut down his strikeouts lately - by not playing.
Mikey Conforto? 327 plate appearances, a slender 30 RBIs. In 449 career plate appearances in "late and close" situations he is hitting .211. Sign him for 10 years, $342 million, I say.
Dommy Smith has hit the wall, figuratively speaking, hitting.173/.185/.192 in his last 15 games, and just 52 RBIs, reminiscent of Ed Kranepool circa 1968.
Frannie Lindor with just 36 RBIs in 364 plate appearances.
Johnny Villar has just 31 RBIs in 348 plate appearances.
Kevin Pillar had not hit below .252 since his brief rookie year nearly 10 years ago - of course, he is hitting .212 now.
Brandon Nimmo in 64 games has a paltry 19 RBIs. On at bats with one or two outs, he is hitting .213.
Jimmy McCann has a mere 35 RBIs in 340 plate appearances.
Brandon Drury? Hitting great - but only 73 at bats.
I could go on, but suffice it to say:
After Alonso and Drury, it's Dreary.
Astros 654 runs, happy fans. Mets 459 runs, agonizing fans.
The Mets have scored only 7 runs for every 10 scored by the Astros this year.
What to do, what to do, what to do? Well, the Mets are 10th in road scoring (252 in 63 games), but 30th (by a stunning large 26 runs in 59 games) with just 207 runs scored at home.
Either trade every hitter - or fix the extraordinary and multi-year run-scoring malaise at home.
4 comments:
The entire system needs to be reviewed and overhauled. The Mets need to create an organizational philosophy, much like the Dodgers and the Rays, and determine what kinds of players they are looking for and proceed to find, and draft, those kinds of players that fit their philosophy. Their approach to finding pitching seems to be effective. The only thing I would change is to look for players who can give the team more innings and then let them pitch for longer than 5 innings at a time. This is what I would look for but regardless of differences in approaches there needs to be a consistent approach. As for the hitters, the Mets need an organizational approach-is it walks and launch angle (I predicted that pitchers would adjust to the launch angle revolution and they have), is it more contact and fewer strikeouts? Whatever it is the Mets need to find those players for the big club and develop those players in the minors. Management also needs to revisit the calls forgetting the shiny new toys that don't fit whatever philosophy they've embraced. If I am the Naval Academy and I need an option QB to run the option system, I am not going to recruit a HS QB who throws the ball 40 times a game. He may be a shiny toy who might want to be a Midshipman but he doesn't fit the system.
"resist" the calls not "revisit.
I should have used the preview button. "for getting" and not forgetting."
Holler, good points. Thanks.
I still think the biggest fix is to move the fences in. The road hitting remains mostly fine. Home hitting remains a contradiction in terms.
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