Who has the early advantage after this weird layoff, the pitchers or the hitters? It depends on who you ask.

Luis Rojas said on Sunday that given the format and layout of the team’s live batting practice and simulated game sessions, the hitters can feel trapped and uncomfortable in the batting cage.

Brandon Nimmo, speaking on Monday, said he feels on top of things despite having not seen live pitching since March.

“That was my biggest concern coming into this, the number of at-bats,” Nimmo said. “But we’ve started already, started with at-bats.”

During a normal spring training, Nimmo said, the Mets won’t have their players take live BP until about two weeks into camp. The team has played simulated games at Citi Field each of the past two days, allowing the hitters to use the full three weeks of summer camp to ramp up.

“I think my mind has been put at ease,” Nimmo said. “Not a lot of time to be able to start off slow here, so we’re all trying to get the number of at-bats up quickly so we can make the right adjustments and get that going.

“It’s going to be something where us doing this every day will help me out a ton.”

Nimmo and Jeff McNeil stayed together as training partners in Florida over the break. They borrowed a workout bench, dumbbells, and other equipment from the Westside Church in Fort Pierce and outfitted a garage to stay in shape.

“It [allowed] us to get some work in, obviously not everything. The heaviest I had was 60-pound dumbbells,” Nimmo said. “You just had to do the best with what you had. Something is better than nothing.”

If the Mets’ hitters feel uncomfortable in the batting cage early on, they feel more out of place in their own clubhouse.

In addition to daily attendance being staggered throughout the day, the team receives pre-packaged food and the cafeteria tables have been pushed far apart.

“You have to eat alone, and we’re used to that being camaraderie time,” Nimmo said. “You almost have to yell to talk to each other. It’s just kind of weird.”

The prevailing sentiment, however, is that the players are willing to make the small sacrifices like sitting alone at lunch in order to play baseball in 2020.