The Mets 2021 season has been off to quite the start…and no, I’m not referring to the games themselves, but rather, the lack-there-of. Between COVID-19, snow, and rain, the Mets schedule has been pretty all over the place to begin the season.

Could this come back to hurt them? Has it already hurt them? We hope not, of course, but…

Ryan Finkelstein
I think the sporadic schedule has already hurt the Mets, because it has made it very hard for their hitters to find a rhythm. Yet despite all of that, they are in first place in the NL East.

Once this team hits its stride, they should only get better. For now, the Mets just have to show some resilience and keep plugging away. But once it warms up and they enter the thick of the season, the Amazin’s have a chance to really take off.

Rob Piersall
It’s truly staggering how many postponements the Mets have already endured and it is only the middle of April. Some teams are already on their fourth turn through the rotation and the Mets just completed their third.

We have seen the offense struggle as well as some bullpen arms because there’s been no real consistency of games. That’s definitely been the downside. However, there is a silver lining in that the Mets have had a chance to keep their players rested and have played some seven inning doubleheader’s that have allowed them to not get deep into that bullpen.

The games will be made up and the team will get rolling but it’s definitely been a strange start so far.

Sal Manzo
Unfortunately the Mets have not had the smoothest start to the season. With a COVID suspension to start the season followed by a string of awful weather, it feels like the Mets have yet to settle into any sort of rhythm. That being said, it seems as though the Mets have not been fazed by their strange start. In the past, I think this would doom any promise to the season, but this year’s team seem really bought in to winning and won’t let the sporadic start be an excuse. It has clearly affected the offense to start the year, but with the starting staff being so good early on it has given the team a bit of a buffer until the bats begin to heat up together. This team has shown great resiliency to start the season, and it will pay off during a (hopeful) pennant push come July and August.

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Rich Sparago
I don’t see the start-and-stop that’s happened to open the season adversely affecting the Mets. Two of the forced doubleheaders are already “in the books.” The Mets will face an altered schedule in late June in Washington, and a doubleheader in late August at Citi Field. They can work through those schedule modifications. The inconsistent time on the field has probably had an impact on the offense early in the season, as stars like Francisco Lindor and Michael Conforto have gotten out of the gate slowly. Even with that, the Mets are 7-4, and with better weather ahead, so things should normalize soon. I think we can say the Mets have “weathered the storm.”

Michelle Ioannou
Hitting is contagious — this is something I have been adamant about for years. But, if you don’t have games, you can’t hit (duh), which means that it’s harder for Mets batters to get into a groove and build momentum off each other. If anything, I think this sporadic schedule is hurting them now more than anything. But, rather it happen now when its easier to overcome than later in the season.