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Lindor Demonstrates Limitations of Advanced Stats

Francisco Lindor had a far better year for the Mets in 2022 than in 2021. Right? … Not so fast. If you look at “the analytics,” several of Lindor’s advanced metrics were actually better, at least percentile-wise, in his first year with the Mets than his second. Still, he recorded 4.2 fWAR in 2021 vs. 6.8 fWAR in 2022, reflecting the massive leap in performance that was...

Mets Expose the Limits of Blank-Check Baseball

Given the Mets’ humiliating collapse over the last month which saw a team that once held a 10.5-game division lead over the defending champion Braves dominated by an 89-win team on national television, it’s hard to think of the 2022 season as one in which nearly everything for the Mets went right. And yet, on closer inspection, absent two baffling weekends in Atlanta and Queens, this year’s team...