ARE METS HITTERS EMBARRASSED WITH THEIR SUNKEN OBP’S?
So, the Mets moved on from 3 key hitters from the prior half decade this past winter - Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo, and Jeff McNeil.
Their career on base percentages as Mets?
Nimmo: .364
McNeil: .351
Alonso: .341
Collectively excellent.
This year, through Wednesday, Juan Soto (.392 OBP) has been scorching since the frigid early season warmed up, and after his recovery from injury.
Stop nitpicking and criticizing him - he is great.
Other Mets’ OBPs this season?
Miserable. They would be OK if they were batting averages and not OBPs.
Tyrone Taylor .210
Ronny Mauricio .219
Jorge Polanco .246
Mark Vientos .261
Marcus Semien .264
Luis Torrens .266
Bo Bichette .273
Brett Baty .306
Look at those putrid OBPs, and then realize that the lowest team OBP last year was .293.
The Mets team OBP this year, through Wednesday? .292.
Well, they do lead the majors in OFF BASE PERCENTAGE.
And…
The new kids are embarrassing the others not named Soto:
Carson Benge .310
Andrew “AJ” Ewing .350
SOMETIMES, I JUST CANNOT GET OVER HOW…
…poorly Mets call ups and part timers hit, each and every year.
This year, 4 called-up hitters - Ibanez, Morabito, Senger, and Pham - combined to go a sickly 1 for 40 through Thursday, with 20 Ks.
- Nick Morabito went 0-11, with 9 Ks!
Last year’s Flopping Foursome - Senger, Young, Mullins, and Siri - in 268 at bats produced just 45 hits (.167).
In 2024, Omar Narvaez and DJ Stewart combined to go 38 for 223 (.170).
In 2023, Almonte, Nido, Arauz, and Mendick combined for 28 for 195 (.143).
In the 101 win of 2022, you remember, the season the Mets lost the division in a tiebreaker, an incredible 14 hitters hit under .200, going a combined 123 for 690 (.178).
- Would they have won 110 games if those guys hit .228?
In 2021, it was Cameron Maybin going 1 for 28, while Khalil Lee and Albert Almora chipped in a combined 7 for 70. That’s a combined 8 for 98 (.081).
Question:
Is the pressure of hitting on the Mets unlike that of any other team?
METS WIN THIRD STRAIGHT, INCLUDING SCOTT’S 1ST MLB WIN
6-1 win - final. Christian Scott dazzled for 5 innings, fanning 8 to secure the win. Very promising about Scott.
Minor league Mets teams also all won, except for a close loss by Syracuse punctuated by a bad Jack Wenninger outing. A nice day.
MORE A&Q
ANSWER: 73-38
QUESTION: What is Zach Wheeler’s record after leaving the Mets?
Hey, I don’t know about you, but I am sure glad that Wheeler went to one of our key rival teams.
How about you?
16 comments:
When you pitch for a bad offensive team, as has Freddy Peralta, you may end up going 3-4, 3.55 ERA in 12 starts - after going an excellent 70-40, but with a virtually identical 3.60 ERA, prior to joining the Mets.
When you can't hit, manufacture runs. Unfortunately, the team cannot do either. Despite all of yesterday's successes, the third inning was a disaster. With runners on first and third, Mendoza calls for a squeeze play. The bunt is poorly executed - hit hard right at the only charging fielder - the first baseman, who flips to the catcher for an easy tag. If that ball were bunted anywhere else or more softly, the run scores. Then on the next pitch, a pickoff on a poorly timed steal of third becomes the second out of a runner in scoring position with no outs. Unacceptable! This is what spring training is for - learn your fundies, guys!
As Mets fans wait, frustrated, for younger Mets players like Baty and Vientos, to be even decent, the Yankees’ Ben Rice has 17 HRs, 40 RBIs, and a .303 batting average in 53 games. Naturally, Rice is averaging a HR every 10 ABs at home, while only one every 16.5 times up on the road.
Baty and Vientos combined have just 8 HRs, 50 RBIs, and a .225 average in a combined 104 games.
Bunting is a very lost art in baseball.
Christian Scott is the only pitcher in franchise history to allow four earned runs or fewer in each of his first 16 career starts. For all of that, he has only one career win, after winning yesterday. The agony of being a Mets starter.
They’d execute better too, I imagine, if they simply got on base more. The WEST at the players are getting on base, the more pressure there is in tight situations I would imagine.
I am looking forward so much more to the Knicks/Spurs NBA finals than the next Mets series. There is nothing like watching two scorching hot teams come head-to-head.
Vientos would have had a HR yesterday if the fences made any sense at all.
https://www.mlb.com/gameday/823622/video/tyler-phillips-in-play-run-s-to-mark-vientos-vej2hp
Ask Seaver, Matlock, DeGrom, etc, etc, etc…
RVH, the fences do not make any sense at all. If they did, it’s possible that Mark V would have stats similar to Ben Rice. Because, when you hit the ball hard, it’s Shore. Nice to get rewarded like Ben Rice is rewarded.
You left out Koosman. Very simply, if he and Mike Mussina switch places in their careers, And JERRY had the hitting behind him that Mike did, and Mike had the hitting behind him that Jerry did, Jerry would be in the Hall of Fame and Mike wouldn’t. Simple as that.
RVH, if you are interested, I did an article or two in the past on the effect of Koosman pitching for the Mets, who couldn’t hit, and Mussina pitching for high octane Orioles and Yankees teams throughout his career:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/592615130369356022/7596261780222320500
RVH, here is another: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/592615130369356022/3405287123685851013
True. Love Kooz. Lefty like me
I am a lefty also, as is my brother Steve.
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