The New York Mets are definitely not having a good time at the moment.
Amid an injury crisis, they have lost three straight games entering Wednesday and eight of their last 10 to drop to 17-19 on the season.
That’s what happens to teams without quality pitching depth.
They get exposed the second two or three members of their starting rotation get hurt at the same time.
The Mets are currently without Max Scherzer, Carlos Carrasco and Jose Quintana, all injured.
Justin Verlander missed more than a month, too.
Replacements haven’t been good, so the team is now dropping games even against lousy competition.
“Not counting their games against the Mets, the Tigers, Rockies and Reds sport a combined .426 winning percentage. The Mets have gone 1-6 against those teams,” Mets insider Anthony DiComo tweeted.
Not counting their games against the Mets, the Tigers, Rockies and Reds sport a combined .426 winning percentage.
The Mets have gone 1-6 against those teams.
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) May 10, 2023
If you win just one out of seven games against such a weak group of teams, you are bound to slip in the standings.
There is no other way around it: the path towards respectability includes winning games against sub-.500 teams.
The problem is that the Mets, because of all the injuries and Scherzer’s recent suspension, have had to rely on David Peterson (7.68 ERA), Joey Lucchesi (4.43 ERA), Tylor Megill (4.33), Denyi Reyes, and Jose Butto more than they should have.
Even Scherzer is sporting a less than ideal 5.56 ERA at the moment.
As long as the starting rotation gets healthy and improves, the Mets should be able to fight for a Wild Card spot.
However, they are digging themselves into a big hole, one that they will have trouble getting out of if things get out of hand.
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