The Mets have the 29th ranked OPS through 21 games. It’s a small sample size, but it’s not insignificant. 21 games is 13% of the season. It’s not like they just had one bad road trip.
This lineup was built with way too many question marks. But even the reasonable downside wasn’t this bad. So you have to ask the question. What is causing this? Is it really just random? It doesn’t seem like it.
We’ve fired hitting coaches, brought in different players, is there something in the team’s organizational philosophy that is faulty?
I can’t help but notice that the two best offensive days were the times the game was out of reach. Is that also just coincidence? I feel like that suggests the team is badly pressing.