When the Mets started the season 11-1, 10 games over .500, we were all riding high. The team was fun to watch and fun to talk about. They were looking more and more like the 2015 National League Champions with their on-field fight, energy, talent, and overall play. Or was that just a mirage?

Fast forward to June 16th, and the team is 10 games under .500. They are excruciating to watch and polarizing to talk about, all of that fight and energy siphoned off by opposing teams. It may or may not surprise you that, in fact, this is the worst turnaround to start a season in Major League Baseball history.

The Mets went from 10 games over .500 to 10 games under .500 in just 66 games, which is the quickest U-turn in history to begin a season. No team has ever had such an abrupt fall from grace, and there doesn’t seem to be any signs of the team righting the ship. With the front office still holding back on any wholesale changes, Mickey Callaway seems to be without answers.

“We just didn’t get the job done,” manager Mickey Callaway said after the Mets 7-3 loss to the Diamondbacks Friday night. “We put ourselves in a position where we didn’t even need hits to score runs, we just needed some ground balls.”

That loss to the D’Backs on Friday night, was their fourth straight, and 19th in their last 23 games. It is excruciating to watch as fans, but it must be even more frustrating for the guys in the clubhouse.

“It’s tough,” Seth Lugo said after he took the loss. “But I have all the confidence that we’re going to bounce back.”

The only silver lining would be the starting pitching, which from top to bottom has been outstanding overall. But as you’re looking up at that cloud, the Bad Year blimp floats in front and conceals that silver lining as the bullpen has been horrible and the offense has been nonexistent.

In their last 13 games (12 of which they’ve lost), the Mets are hitting .143 having scored just 21 runs and striking out 125 times. They have not scored more than three runs since June 1st, a game they lost 7-4 to the Cubs, and have not scored more than four since May 29th against the Braves, a game which they lost 7-6 due to the bullpen. Jason Vargas, who won an MLB-high 18 games for the Kansas City Royals last season, summed it all up succinctly.

“We’ve definitely got to start winning ballgames. That’s just the bottom line.”

This team can’t blame injuries like 2016 and 2017. Yes, guys are injured, but there is enough talent on the field to win ballgames. They have no energy, hitters are chasing balls out of the zone trying to do too much, and the bullpen isn’t nailing things down. Nothing is working, and the Mets now have only one more win than the Marlins, who are trying to lose baseball games.

Yeah. The Mets (10.5 GB) are 28-38 and the Marlins (13.5 GB) are 27-43. The Mets have won one of their last nine games while the Marlins are 6-4 in that span.

This atrocious level of play cannot be sustained by a team with such good players like Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Brandon Nimmo, and company. Something must change… But nothing is. Sandy Alderson is not making the necessary moves to improve this team. Is he being inhibited by ownership? Maybe. Does he truly believe Jeff McNeil is not an improvement over Jose Reyes? Maybe. But he needs to look at the team’s play and realize that whatever they’re doing isn’t working.