This will be the headline at the end of the year for the 2023 New York Mets. I don’t want to write this, but I have to be honest about my favorite baseball team. I wish I could be one of those happy go lucky younger Mets fans that don’t know disappointment.
The facts are, they did nothing to improve on last year’s great regular season team. Oh, that team also ended up being very disappointing in the playoffs. Not a huge shock there. This team will not hit the over on their win total at 93 and I put my money where my mouth is with today’s “Put These On The Card”.
At the very best, this team will finish third in the NL East and might have an outside shot at the last wild card. They did nothing to improve their lineup from last year at all. The biggest offensive signing was resigning Nimmo, which I did like. The rest is literally the same guys in the same position on the field and on the lineup card. They even have Baty and Vientos in the minors to start the year.
Just to be clear, I don’t hate the lineup; but the same lineup did not show up in the playoffs last year. They were very successful in the regular season and were just off in October. I could live with that if we had a pitching staff, but we don’t. The Mets are relying on tow pitchers that are way over the hill in Verlander and Scherzer and a pitcher in Senga who has never played day in and day out MLB hitters. The bullpen is decent, but the huge loss of Diaz will have to shuffle guys around in new roles.
Look, I am writing this blog without the analytics and all that bullshit. This is from a standpoint of a 30-year Mets fan who just knows how these things go. I hope to be proven wrong, but the juju is just there for this to be an epic failure of a year. Will I be cheering for them? Hell yes; and if Cohen goes out and gets Ohtani at the deadline it might just save the season.
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