It has only been three games, but Boomer is already sick of watching Jeff McNeil hit in the middle of the Mets lineup.
“J.D. Martinez can’t get here fast enough,” Boomer said. “I think about Jeff McNeil batting cleanup, and I’m just like, ‘you gotta be kidding me.’
“What are you doing? That’s what you’re throwing out there as a lineup?”
McNeil managed just one hit in 11 at-bats, and is coming off a season where his OPS fell nearly 150 points from the year before. The former batting champ is off to a rough start, and while it’s still early, Boomer is done with McNeil as a cleanup hitter.
“They need J.D. Martinez as soon as possible,” Boomer said.