There’s a few ways to describe how Kodai Senga pitched on Saturday. His manager went with “uncompetitive.” The always meticulous Senga, who is fighting through his mechanics, has been pretty bad since returning from the injured list. He hasn’t been the Kodai Senga we grew accustomed to seeing pre-hamstring injury. That Kodai Senga was bound for the All-Star Game in...
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Getting high-leverage outs has been tough enough for the New York Mets. But navigating the other seven innings has been the real grind. With a rotation riddled by injuries — Kodai Senga, Frankie Montas, Griffin Canning, and Sean Manaea all missing time — the Mets’ bullpen has been asked to do far too much. The result? A relief staff that’s stretched thin, trying to clean up after an...
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After going out with what Gary Cohen called a “whimper” in the first game of a doubleheader, the New York Mets have since ripped off four straight wins, piling up 30 runs in the process. It was only a few days ago that they were stuck in a 3-15 struggle where consistent offense of any sort was hard to come by. Now? They’re putting up crooked numbers and doing it against two likely playoff teams....
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Juan Soto is, unsurprisingly, as advertised. 22 days into June, Soto leads all of baseball with a 1.208 OPS this month. Soto erupted in the Mets’ 11–4 win on Saturday, racking up four hits, four RBIs, and launching two home runs — the 26th multi-homer game of his career. Over his last 30 games, he’s hitting .274 with a .962 OPS, eight homers, a walk rate north of 19%, and a strikeout rate under...
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Tylor Megill has been struggling. After lighting it up in March and April and looking like a completely different pitcher, all the offseason changes he made just haven’t stuck. The velocity spike was real, the new pitch mix looked promising, and for a minute, it felt like the Mets might have finally unlocked something. But since then, it’s been a whole lot of the same. Megill seemed to be...
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