Coming into the month of June, the Mets were exactly at .500 in terms of winning percentage with a 27-27 record and they were within striking distance of a playoff spot.

However, on July 1, they now sit at 32-48 coming into today’s game against the Miami Marlins as they went 5-21 for the month.

To put that into perspective of just how bad that is, keep this in mind. First of all, that is the third-worst record for any month in the team’s history with the team only doing worse in July of 1963 (4-25) and August of 1982 (5-24). Second, that is also the worst record the Mets have had in the month of June in their history.

Okay, so where does the blame go?

Well, that answer would appear to go everywhere when a team is doing this poorly, but I think the offense is certainly a place that could be looked at heavily.

In fact, the Mets offense only scored five runs or more in five games for the entire month while hitting .210/.292/.361.

That is another level of bad for this team as even the 2015 Mets hit .227/.290/.358 in the month of June. To be clear, that was pre-Yoenis Cespedes, meaning that this was still a team with a lineup that featured John Mayberry Jr. and Eric Campbell on a regular basis.

The team also has to look no further than their completely ineffective bullpen as they had a combined ERA of 5.68 and constantly blew multiple leads for the starting pitchers and this could even be argued as their biggest pitfall as a team for the entire season as the bullpen has a 4.77 ERA on the year as well.

Now the one bright spot for this team has been their starting rotation, with Jacob deGrom having the best ERA in baseball while Steven Matz and Zack Wheeler have continued to take strides forward over the last month. This has been their bright spot despite the fact that Noah Syndergaard did not appear in a single game.

However, that has been all for naught with this team as countless great efforts by the rotation have been squandered late or they were never even given a lead, to begin with, as they were shutout three times and scored less than two runs seven times.

Meanwhile, while they continue to lose as much as they have, Mickey Callaway is nowhere to be found to give any sort of “tough love” and give any sort of fiery speech. Now, while his communication skills were lauded when the team hired him, it appears that only applied to when they were winning.

Right now, it doesn’t appear he has anything to say besides “they play the game the right way” while the team continues to sink further and further in the standings.

So where do they go from here?

Well, after this atrocious month they have set themselves up to be sellers at the deadline, with John Ricco, Omar Minaya, and J.P. Ricciardi placed in charge of the direction of this franchise.

Jeurys Familia, Asdrubal Cabrera, and Jerry Blevins are all likely to be traded, and the latter two for very little at that. Outside of those three, the only pieces of value that might be available are any of the four starters that were mentioned above.

Everyone will know by the end of this month just how far they are willing to go in terms of selling, but the month of the June has proven to be the one that will be the nail in the coffin for the 2018 Mets.