Let’s be fair to the pitching geezers and gimps: the Mets’ offense remains a real issue, too, especially lately.
Everyone wants to point to the Mets’ aging and ailing starting rotation — are they more aging than ailing, or vice versa? — as the prime reason they are so far below their 101-win pace of a year ago. But let’s be fair to the pitching geezers and gimps: the Mets’ offense remains a real issue, too, especially lately.
The only everyday player who’s clearly producing above what’s expected was dubbed “Nimm Nuts” on the back page of this very paper the other day, following Brandon Nimmo’s inexplicable idea to try to steal second with the tying run at the plate and the heart* of the lineup up in the ninth inning. Anyway, on every other day Nimmo is the least of Showalter’s worries. He didn’t order them for me, but as I see it, here are three big issues with the Mets’ middle-of-the-pack offense, in order.Starling Marte’s struggles at the top of the order has been one of the reasons the Mets’ offense has been in a funk, The Post Jon Heyman writes.While there’s no explanation for Nimmo’s Little League-level play, maybe he was just trying to create something ahead of the Mets’ two struggling stars.
The first has to do with the dynamics of the lineup. The obvious replacement in the No. 2 spot would be Jeff McNeil, who won the batting championship last year and is a rare Met who’s relatively warm now, but Showalter prefers not to start the lineup with two left-handed hitters. The second reason is he suspects it might affect Marte psychologically to be demoted. A dejected Francisco Alvarez, who has struggled offensive, stares out into the field after the Mets’ 5-2 loss to the Rockies.
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