Offensive

[Centerfield]

Five Mets regulars have an OPS in the .500s. 
 

Francisco Lindor   .558

Bo Bichette    .524

Marcus Semien   .557

Brett Baty  .599

Jorge Polanco  .569

 

Carson Benge would love to be in the 500 club but would have to go on a hot streak to get there. (.422)

Of the regulars, only Robert and Alvarez are hitting. Alvarez is batting 9th. Vientos, the other semi-regular that’s hitting, didn’t play last night. 
 

The Mets have a .665 OPS as a team, good for 20th in MLB.  
 

Yes, it’s early.  You figure Lindor and Bichette will be fine.  Soto will come back.  But everyone else is a question mark.  The guys who are struggling might improve, but it’s just as likely that the guys who are currently hitting will regress.  
 

 

 

[MFS62]

Reminds me of those late 70s teams when they would get a bases empty homer and then we could go get a beer because nothing else would happen for the rest of the game.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Off to sub-600 OPS this season (games thru Sat 4/11):

Trea Turner (591), Ketel Marte, Geraldo Perdomo, Austin Riley, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Salvador Perez, Cal Raleigh, Byron Buxton, Jarren Duran, Pete Alonso, Dansby Swanson, Masyn Winn, Julio Rodriguez, Jake Croenworth, Jazz Chisholm, Bryson Stott, Alec Bohm, Vinnie Pasquentino, Michael Busch, Nolan Arenado, Trevor Story, Josh Naylor (287)

It's early folks.

[Edgy MD]

That Pete Crow-Armstrong start comes after an offseason six-year, $115 million extension the Cubs gave him after only two seasons in the league.

[Centerfield]

1 hour ago, Frayed Knot said:

Off to sub-600 OPS this season (games thru Sat 4/11):

Trea Turner (591), Ketel Marte, Geraldo Perdomo, Austin Riley, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Salvador Perez, Cal Raleigh, Byron Buxton, Jarren Duran, Pete Alonso, Dansby Swanson, Masyn Winn, Julio Rodriguez, Jake Croenworth, Jazz Chisholm, Bryson Stott, Alec Bohm, Vinnie Pasquentino, Michael Busch, Nolan Arenado, Trevor Story, Josh Naylor (287)

It's early folks.

Sure. And many of those guys, like Lindor and Bichette, have enough of a track record that you figure they will bounce back. For them, “it’s early” means “be patient, they’ll be fine”. 
 

Some of those guys are question marks.  Baty, Benge. Crow-Armstrong. For them, “it’s early” means “sure, they’re not great so far, but these guys could still be very good”.
 

And for some of those guys, like Arenado and Semien, who are likely shot, “it’s early” means “I don’t see any signs of a bounceback. Better start looking for better options now”. 

[Frayed Knot]

The larger point is that if some guy(s) has a bad two week stretch in mid-season it's barely noticed because that slump (or hot streak for that matter) is mixed in with the other 2-3-4 hundred ABs so the overall numbers are only slightly dented. But when those dozen+ games are out there all naked by themselves it looks particularly, and often misleadingly, ugly,  btw, there are a lot of other guys than just the ones listed above [prolly 3x as many] I was just picking out the more 'name' players.

All this doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about it all, but the idea that the manager needs to have his plane ticket confiscated before the second road trip of the year or that this is proof that the PoBo, especially one with a lengthy track record of success, needs to be dumped 1/10th of the way into a season (and less than 1/2 of the way into his contract) because some [not Robert, not Peralta, not Williams] of this winter's acquisitions are off to slow starts (as are some of the holdovers).

 

[Centerfield]

Agree on your main point. 
 

And I also agree that a manager or GM shouldn’t be fired based upon what happens in the first 16 games of a season. I do think Mendy should be fired, but that goes back to what we learned about him last year. 
 

And the fact that he’s showing he’s not any different this year. 

[Frayed Knot]

And if this shit doesn't straighten itself out there's a chance 'Mendy' doesn't survive the year. But it's not happening tonight kids.

[metirish]

Pham called up per Will Sammon 

[Edgy MD]

I'm guessing he is getting Mauricio's spot, but ... maybe Benge's?

[Centerfield]

Somehow the Mets have gotten worse since this thread. 
 

now 28th in OPS. 

[Lefty Specialist]

Lifeless baseball.  They constructed a team that needs to bunch hits to score.  Unfortunately, the bunching is not happening.

[Edgy MD]

The curious thing is the utter lack of walks, or even deep counts.

Last night, the only guys who seemed engaged over the course of an at-bat were Bichette and Vientos, and I'm not suggesting it was necessarily consistent over the course of the evening for either of them.

They get a rare guy on in the ninth and Lindor (who needs a day off) went up there first-pitch swinging.  

 

[The Hot Corner]

The Mets have 5 players on the roster hitting .250 or better (that includes Soto) and 5 regulars that are hitting below .200

Get off the damn interstate!!!

[Centerfield]

The good news. Lindor is out of the .500 club and now has an OPS of .607. Bad news is Semien might exit the other way. His OPS is down to .508.  Vientos continues to struggle and has entered the .500 club.

Lindor:  .607 (up)

Bichette:  .578 (up)

Semien:  .508 (down)

Baty:  .520 (down)

Polanco:  .532 (down)

Vientos:  .596 (down)

Benge still hasn’t cracked .500 (.440). 
 

Robert has fallen back to .764. Bad strikeout last night. 
 

The Mets have a .625 team OPS. That is  28th in MLB.