While the usual suspects in the media and the folks at the Whinery continue to drum up fear and using flawed logic to push their agenda that the Mets will not escape from Los Angeles alive, I’d urge you to mute out that sort of noise pollution and word vomit.
First of all, the Mets team that faced Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke earlier this season is not the same much stronger Mets team we have now. And by the way, we still took four games out of seven from them.
There was no Yoenis Cespedes or Michael Conforto or David Wright or Travis d’Arnaud during the three games at Citi Field or the four games in Los Angeles in July. To post numbers to point out how inept the Mets offense was against Kershaw and Greinke back then is disingenuous and misleading.
Heck, it was during the sixth game of the season series the Mets made the trade for Juan Uribe and Kelly Johnson and they didn’t show up until the final game of the series.
Let me roll up my sleeves and give it to you straight…
Yes, the Mets won 90 games and that’s a remarkable achievement given the preseason expectations from the 99 out of 100 experts who had the Mets missing the postseason. But in my opinion that doesn’t accurately tell the whole story about how good this Mets team really is as they get ready to Beat LA.
Try and follow along with me on this. If we were to break the season down to it’s two most defining parts – a kind of Mason-Dixon line for the team’s 2015 season – this is what you get:
1. A pitching dominant Mets team that were 52-50 (.509) from Opening Day through July 30 when their offense ranked among the worst in baseball.
2. A Mets team with a well-balanced attack that finished the season 38-22 (.633) and featured great pitching as well as an offense to match that actually ranked third in the majors.
In fact, if you take this current group of Mets and use that .633 trend line, they have actually been playing like a 102-Win team for the last two months of the season.
So ignore all the noise and the drivel, proudly put on your Orange & Blue, and Get Freaking Metsmerized because we are going all the way, my die-hard friends!!!
