Is New York Mets The Most Disappointing Team This Season? Is There Any Hope Left?

The MLB season of 2023 continues to develop gradually as usual. We have reached the halfway point of the regular season, despite the fact that it is still very early. What comes next is a routine denunciation of the most disappointing team of the 2023 campaign so far, Mets, and what comes next is a relatively noticeable impending checkpoint combined with negativity as a primary principle.

This team had some success in 2022 and was predicted to be a top contender in 2023, but they have so far fallen well short of expectations.

Is New York Mets The Most Disappointing Team This Season? Is There Any Hope Left?

The MLB team with the highest salary in 2023 is the New York Mets. Additionally, it has the largest salary in the history of the sport.

With the massive expectations of winning a championship that come with creating this Mets squad, Steve Cohen has spent in excess of $400 million. Therefore, it seems sense that the team’s difficulties through early May have been concerning.

Despite a devastating early postseason loss at the hands of the San Diego Padres, Cohen, GM Billy Eppler, and manager Buck Showalter did not have a club sitting under.500 in May in mind for a squad that started the year off 101 regular-season victories. But this is where the New York Mets are, and if things  don’t change soon, they could be headed for a dubious distinction.

They are definitely no longer a winning club following Tuesday night’s 6-4 defeat to the Braves, which sent them back below.500 at 30-31 after they gave up a three-run lead in the sixth inning.

In general, the Mets’ season hasn’t gone well; their offense now has the 12th-lowest OPS in the NL, while their pitching staff has the 11th-lowest ERA.

Injury setbacks have hindered the staff, most notably the WBC knee injury that lockdown closer Edwin Daz sustained that may keep him out for the whole season.

Co-ace José Quintana and Carlos Carrasco, two more starters, are also sidelined with injuries, while Justin Verlander has recently made his way back from the IL. Additionally, Max Scherzer has typically had difficulty, both before and after he was suspended for using an illegal substance known as “sticky stuff.”


Marte’s season hasn’t gone well, to the point that it seems like a report on how he played all season in pain will be released after the season. He still runs the bases with no loss of speed. He still poses a threat, and even more so because of the modifications to MLB rules that encourage theft.

His legs had moved more slowly than the bat. Marte has a slash line of.223/.298/.285 with a home run and 8 RBI. Despite already having nine stolen bases, he hasn’t even reached first base, therefore the adjustments to the game haven’t helped him.

Nido has been one of the year’s most disappointing players due to his deteriorating bat. During the spring, he was outstanding. He didn’t bring any of that punch into the regular season.

Nido is at bat.118/148/118 without a run batted in among his six hits. He has already made two mistakes. He has only caught 1 out of 9 base stealers.

No matter how you try to spin it, Lindor’s performance thus far has been underwhelming. He hasn’t consistently been among the league’s top shortstops. Even when his contract is taken into account, we find ourselves wiping tears from our faces as we reflect on how disappointing he has been this year.

The hitter is Lindor.6 home runs and 27 RBIs on 224/.323/.448. With 38 strikeouts in his first 36 games, he has been a strikeout monster. Already, 24.5% of the times he steps to the plate, he fans. His previous peak was 18.8% last year.

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Verlander has only made one game since making his comeback, but it is likely that his presence will steady a rotation that desperately needs it. Maybe Scherzer will eventually find a solution to his problems. Hopefully, the rear end will also improve in health.

Surprisingly, on June 7th and 8th, in the following two games, the Mets will give the ball to co-aces Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, one 38 and one 40, and ask them to deliver them a series victory that has suddenly seemed like an important internal talking point less than two weeks prior to the first day of summer.

The second game of a three-game NL East series between the New York Mets (30-31) and Atlanta Braves (36-24) will be played on Wednesday. Truist Park’s first pitch is scheduled at 7:20 p.m.

New York has lost 4 straight games after Tuesday’s series-clinching 6-4 loss. The Mets are just 13-15 since May 6, and they haven’t defeated Atlanta in a season series since 2017.

“We have over a hundred games still,” Showalter said later. “I have confidence these guys will do things their history tells you they’ll do.”

Cohen is so deeply committed that he probably will demand a deadline on another level. The Mets might use it to address lineup gaps and rotation depth.

Given the existence of Cohen and Showalter, the support system for the 2023 Mets does appear to be significantly stronger. We’re not quite ready to give up on the Mets because those two still want to win as badly as anyone in baseball does. However, if they don’t improve quickly, perhaps a new episode of the “Worst Team Money Could Buy” would be in order.

 

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