Baseball Prospectus projects the Mets to finish 82-80 this year and fall short of the postseason.
This is actually a little bit more promising than FanGraphs who projected the Mets for 79 wins this season.
Dillon Gee took exception to the projection, taking to Twitter to say, “Sometimes people get it wrong!!!”
There’s no real science to these predictions and it’s all very subjective. However if the Mets don’t finish the season with a minimum of 85 wins, I would suspect that most fans will not be pleased.
Last year was supposed to be the season the Mets began their run of sustainable success and a potential winning season. But the Matt Harvey situation derailed that and all eyes shifted to 2015.
Because expectations are so high, I’m not sure if just finishing at or above .500 would be enough to make fans ecstatic after six consecutive losing seasons.
Then there are those who believe that the Mets did not do enough this offseason to convince fans of their commitment to winning.
Because we have such a promising rotation, I do believe the Mets will have an exciting season with some high points and low points. As usual the Mets are banking on lots of “if’s” to make it all happen. Honestly, I’d feel a lot better if Terry Collins had been replaced with someone else, preferably Wally Backman. We’ll see how it goes.
