I just viewed the video on Kevin Long, who’s in Port St. Lucie, speaking to Daily News reporter John Harper on Mets Hot Stove.
The new Mets hitting coach says that if all the players remain healthy and stay on the field AND if they all deliver their peak performance or better than their peak performance, the Mets can have the type of offense they’re looking for in 2015.
“I feel pretty good about our offense. Certainly we’re gonna need them to stay healthy and be on the field. We’re gonna push them to their limits. They’re going to have to perform if not close to their peak level then above their peak level.”
“There’s going to be a few things I try to do that they’ll be uncomfortable with. But hey, I’m uncomfortable coming to a new team and working with all these new faces.”
It’s extremely rare for a team to stay healthy all year and have a lineup full of players each having the best seasons of their career. Any team that can pull that off usually wins the World Series.
We won’t really know how Long impacts this team until at least the All Star break. By then we’ll have enough of a sample size to see what kind of offense Sandy Alderson has built and if Long truly gets all these peak performances out of them.
