One more week of spring training games and the regular season is here.

The Mets were busy this past offseason, let’s see how some of their acquisitions have done so far this spring.

Position Players

Tim Locastro

Tim Locastro has been the best story to come through Mets spring training this season. The 30-year-old outfielder has seemingly found his bat and has been a menace throughout the Mets exhibition schedule.

Locastro is batting .342 with a 1.049 OPS and six stolen bases. He’s made a strong case to be on the Mets Opening Day roster. He’ll benefit from the new stealing rules and is someone the Mets will want on their bench in any pinch-running situations. The Mets had Terrance Gore on the roster last season for it.

Tommy Pham

Pham hasn’t started punching the ball yet. He’s had an abysmal spring, batting just .152 in 33 at-bats with one run batted in. It could be a small sample size or it could be what the 35-year-old is capable of. Last year continued a trend since 2019 where he’s batted under .250. He’ll be insurance if anything but Mets fans won’t be clamoring for him in the lineup any time soon.

Danny Mendick

Mendick only has 16 at-bats this spring and is likely going to be minor league depth. Mendick, 29, spent the first four seasons with the White Sox, never amounting to more than 164 at-bats in a season.

Mendick is a bit of a super-utility man on defense, playing the outfield, third base, second base, and shortstop. He’s mainly played the middle infield throughout his career. Mendick doesn’t provide more than Luis Guillorme or Eduardo Escobar. He’ll be in Syracuse most of the year.

Omar Narvaez

Narvaez has spent the majority of spring with Team Venezuela at the World Baseball Classic. He logged four at-bats with the team before they were eliminated. Narvaez has been praised for entering a mentor role for the Mets younger catchers when they first reported in February.

Based off spring performances, he shouldn’t be the starter of Tomas Nido but they’ll likely do a 60/40 split until the Mets feel Francisco Alvarez is ready. Narvaez signed a one-year, $8 million contract with the Mets with a player option for 2024.

The Mets feel he’ll rebound from his horrific 2022 and come closer to his career averages of .268/.345/.406 against righties.

Pitchers

Justin Verlander

Aces gonna ace. Verlander has been everything we’ve watched throughout his whole career this spring. In 11 1/3 innings pitched he has a 1.59 ERA and 16 strikeouts. The reigning AL Cy Young winner is showing no signs of slowing down now that he’s passed 40 years old and the Mets are the beneficiary.

David Robertson

Robertson might be the Mets closer this year. The righty who is having trouble adjusting to the pitch clock has three innings pitched this spring, allowing two runs. Robertson will likely get one more appearance before the regular season begins. He hasn’t pitched more than four innings in spring since 2018.

He is coming off an excellent season with a 2.40 ERA in 63 2/3 innings, getting 20 saves. Robertson had an streak of injury-shortened seasons prior to 2022 but he looks ready for 2023 after refinding the groove he had on 2010s Yankees teams.

Kodai Senga

Senga is enjoying success in his first appearances in America. He’s thrown five innings, struck out batters and has a 3.60 ERA. Senga had a pitching setback with a finger injury due to the different baseballs being used but he’s adapted well and will be ready to go at the start of the season. Senga should be slotted in as the No. 3 starter behind Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander.

Brooks Raley

Raley was a trade acquisition by the Mets in December, as they needed a lefty in their pen. Raley made three spring appearances for the Mets before heading to Team USA for the WBC. Raley suffered a hamstring injury but there is a “strong possibility” that he’ll be ready for Opening Day.

Elieser Hernandez

Hernandez was a bit of a wild card acquisition by the Mets. The 27-year-old was awful and has been terrible for the Marlins in 90 career games. The Mets saw something in his profile to give him a chance but he’s been himself throughout spring.

Hernandez has allowed eight runs in 8 2/3 innings pitched while walking five and striking out five. That gives him a 8.31 ERA.

Hernandez has allowed a run in all four of his appearances, and if carried on the roster will be nothing more than a mop-up arm or a spot starter when the Mets have a random doubleheader in August and no healthy starter is available.

Jose Quintana

We will see you after the All-Star break. Quintana was set to be an innings-eater if anything for the Mets but an unfortunate injury has set him back for three months.

Quintana, 34, has been one of the most durable pitchers since debuting in 2012. He’s started 30 or more games eight times, including last year when he made 32 starts between the Pirates and Cardinals.

Quintana is a ground-ball pitcher who thrived in St. Louis with their excellent defenders. He signed a two-year, $26 million deal this offseason.