During the month of May, the Mets had to make a lot of transactions, largely due to the fact that many players got injured at one point or another.

The team, in turn, made a plethora of roster additions with two of the most noteworthy ones being Adeiny Hechavarria and Carlos Gomez.

Neither one was met with significant approval and, in fact, the Hechavarria addition actually angered many who thought that he was a very below average hitter and an overrated defender who was not worth the $3 million salary he was set to receive.

However, it could very well be argued, in retrospect, that the Mets wouldn’t have won eight of their last 12 games without the duo’s presence as both have made significant contributions over the last couple of weeks.

Friday night’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks shows this as well as any game as Hechavarria hit a monster two-run double in the second inning to extend the Mets lead to 3-0. The ball would have left the yard in almost any other ballpark, but given how high the fence is at Chase Field, it ricocheted off the top of the wall.

Hechavarria also helped the Mets come back later that night as he hit a two-out single to put runners on the corners with two outs. That allowed a J.D. Davis to record an infield single which Todd Frazier scored on to tie the game at 4-4.

Next up would be the other Mets’ player of discussion in this article, Carlos Gomez, who would hit a double down the line on a 2-2 pitch from Matt Andriese that would score Hechavarria from second base and could have scored Davis, had the Diamondbacks’ ball-boy not picked up the ball. The Mets would win 5-4 because of that.

Both Gomez and Hechavarria have been particularly on fire in their last seven games played, with the former hitting .300/.333/.400 with two doubles and one RBI while the latter is hitting .296/.321/.593 with two home runs and nine RBI.

While Gomez (.718 OPS) has not produced nearly as well as Hechavarria (.806 OPS) so far in 2019, the former’s production is likely more sustainable given that he was an All-Star center fielder at one point and has a career .726 OPS.

Meanwhile, Hechavarria has never displayed this type of power in the past with a career .094 ISO as compared to the .255 ISO he has in 19 games this season.

With that being said, power is up all across baseball the last few years and especially this season, which makes it possible that Hechavarria has caught onto it himself. Nobody should expect that to last for certain, though.

Either way, both are making major impacts to the Mets roster at a time where this team could have crumbled. Instead, they find themselves merely five games out of first place in the NL East and two games out of the second NL Wild Card spot.

Robinson Cano is likely to return in the next couple of days as reported by Mike Puma of the New York Post, which will likely limit Hechavarria’s playing time going forward. However, the impact that both he and Gomez have made to this team in 2019 has been significant and it could be argued that if this team finds it’s way into October, that the two of them helped salvage the season in May.