The Mets dealt with several injuries this year, including Jed Lowrie missing nearly the entire season, Dominic Smith dealing with a stress fracture in his foot, Robert Gsellman tearing his lat and Drew Smith missing the whole season with Tommy John surgery.

However, two of the most important ones were Robinson Cano being sidelined for a third of the season with a torn hamstring as well as a quadriceps issue from earlier in the campaign. The other is Brandon Nimmo, who in 2019 was one of the biggest contributors to the Mets offensively.

Luckily for New York, they had enough talent between Pete Alonso rocketing 53 home runs, Michael Conforto hitting 30 more, and Jeff McNeil, J.D. Davis and Todd Frazier each chipping in 20.

For 2020, if Cano and Nimmo can stay healthy, their offensive prowess will be much welcome to an already solid lineup.

While at a glance Cano’s numbers look pedestrian, the veteran second baseman, in the second half of the season he hit .284/.339/.541 with nine long balls.

The only thing with Cano is, he will be going into his age 37 season next year, so it’s unclear if he will ever be able to get back to a high level of production like he had in his prime. It’s always possible, as we saw from someone like Nelson Cruz for the Twins this year, and I’m sure the Mets would love nothing more for the same to happen to Robbie.

Cano has hit throughout his career, and if New York is going to make a serious run for the playoffs next year, his production will be needed.

As for Nimmo, I think some people forget how solid he was offensively just a year ago.

In 140 games in 2018, the outfielder hit 17 home runs, hit to a .263/.404/.483 clip, a .385 wOBA, 148 wRC+ and had 4.5 fWAR.

In 2019, Nimmo was limited to just 69 games due to whiplash and a bulging disk in his neck, but returned towards the end of the season and performed like he did last year.

In 26 games during September, Nimmo hit .261/.430/.565 with five home runs.

Nimmo isn’t going to light the world on fire defensively, but he’s passable (-1 DRS, -0.9 UZR in 481.0 outfield innings in 2019), but his bat is a crucial part of the lineup. As he enters his prime years, there is still time for him to even get better as well.

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For next season, you can likely subtract Todd Frazier from the equation since New York will likely let the infielder leave via free agency. Other than that, the only other players who are unlikely to return on the offensive side are Joe Panik and Juan Lagares.

That means that New York will likely have their core guys in Alonso, McNeil, Conforto, Davis and Amed Rosario to go along with Cano and Nimmo. That’s seven out of the eight lineup spots covered already.

Wilson Ramos is still under contract for another year, but it’s unknown at the time whether the Mets will look to trade him or not this winter.

Regardless, those seven players make for a strong lineup and tough task for opposing pitchers.

If the Mets can just figure out their bullpen, reinforce their bench with another outfielder and perhaps another strong bench piece, and bring back Zack Wheeler, the team is primed to build off their 86 win season from this year.