The Washington Nationals are coming to the Mets today as the Mets plan on hiding their regular pitchers again. Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom will be pitching in a “B” game while reliever Jeurys Familia, who was brought back this offseason on a three-year, $30 million deal, will get the start today.

Yesterday Hector Santiago was given his first start of the Spring and things did not go well for Santiago who allowed six runs off seven hits in 0.2 innings (to that point he allowed one run in about six innings of work). The bad situation for him turned into a longer opportunity for other players to pitch. Coleman threw 2.1 scoreless innings. O’Rourke threw two scoreless and Bashlor allowed one run over two innings (from four hits).

Mets Lineup

  1. Brandon Nimmo (LF)
  2. Juan Lagares (CF)
  3. Robinson Cano (DH)
  4. Michael Conforto (RF)
  5. Dominic Smith (1B)
  6. Tomas Nido (C)
  7. Luis Guillorme (2B)
  8. Adeiny Hechavarria (SS)
  9. Will Toffey (3B)

Starting Pitcher: Jeurys Familia

Other Things To Watch For:

  1. Yesterday we noted that despite hitting his second homer of the spring, Conforto was having a slow spring in the idea of consistently getting on base. Well, he went 1-for-2 yesterday with a walk and a homer so now he’s batting .244/.292/.400 and my streak of saying something in this section and the opposite occurring, in reality, stays intact.
  2. Pete Alonso hit his fourth homer of the season leading pretty much the entire world to conclude that he’s one of the best 25 men in camp. So let’s see what the Mets do with that. He’s now hitting .356/.396/.644 over 48 PAs.
  3. Robinson Cano continues to put together an amazing spring. He went 2-for-2 with a walk yesterday including a double moving his spring line to .457/.486/.686 over 37 PAs.
  4. The Mets have eight spring training games left before Opening Day. Mesoraco went 1-for-4 yesterday. Dominic Smith went 0-for-4 yesterday (but he’s having a tremendous spring). This is probably not, and shouldn’t be, the universe where the Mets carry three catchers and two first basemen so as much as they are each competing with other people in their positions right now, they may be competing against each other. The injuries to Jed Lowrie and Todd Frazier give the upper hand to Smith right now in my opinion.

Let’s Go Mets!

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