Mets acting general manager Zack Scott didn’t hold back when assessing the current outlook of the team earlier this week, saying the Mets have been “unacceptably bad” in their recent slide that has dropped them from third to first in the NL East.
Scott also added that the team has been “very mediocre” for most of the season, one in which the team held on to first place for three straight months despite an unprecedented injury bug that at one point had seven of the team’s eight position player starters from Opening Day on the IL.
“We’ve played very mediocre baseball for most of the year,” Scott said. “This recent stretch has been much worse than mediocre. We would’ve taken mediocre at this point. For this stretch it’s been unacceptably bad and we need to be better.”
According to SNY’s Andy Martino, the sentiment that the Mets have been mediocre for much of the season “ruffled feathers” among some in the locker room, who believe the team’s ability to be where they are now despite how much time key pieces have spent on the IL is anything but average.
Still, the Mets are just barely poking their heads above the .500 mark and entered Thursday’s action with a negative run differential, but again, that is with players like Jonathan Villar, Luis Guillorme, Kevin Pillar, Billy McKinney and Brandon Drury seeing consistent playing time while expected starters nursed multiple injuries. New York was a feel-good story just a few short weeks ago, but it seems injuries and a downtrodden offense are starting to take a toll.
But regardless of what the outlook is now, it seems some with the team resent the idea that they have been average all season.
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