Second base decisions have become more difficult for the manager Carlos Mendoza, who is juggling with two different talented and small options.
Luisangel Acuña is playing well.
Suddenly, Brett Bitch, who won the assent against the right of Miles Mikolas on Friday.
Upon entering the game, Acuña had gone 8 by 21 (.381) with an OBP of .458 and four robberies in its previous seven games.
Bathy had spent 7 of 22 (.318) with a double, triple and two races promoted in their previous six games.
“Trying to find a balance to maintain through the action of the game. They both play well, so it makes it much more difficult,” Mendoza said before the Mets faced the cardinals in Citi Field. “But that’s a good problem.”
The problem will assume some additional bets in the next few days.
Acuña and Bathy have been replacing Jeff McNeil, whose rehabilitation task will continue on Saturday and Sunday with Double-A Binghamton.
After the consequence, it is likely to be activated, and probably kicks Acuña or Bathy back to triple-a Syracuse.
That scenario is likely, but not definitive.
The Mets take José Azocar as a fourth gardener, and Azocar cannot opt without being exposed to Waatvers.
It could Acuña, who has again begun to take representatives in the central garden, where he could help complete the Jose Siri – Do you suppose the point of view of the backup, while Bitch becomes the main backup player?
“Too early to say it. I think we will cross that bridge when we have to do it,” said Mendoza. “Both are playing well, so I hope that is the case that will be a very difficult decision [of who leaves when McNeil joins]. “
Acuña has forged a role as a part -time player who has begun to adapt to the launch of the major leagues, which really plays an excellent defense anywhere and can be a valuable pinch of late play.
Upon entering the game, he led the Mets in robberies (five) and had scored the fourth more (eight) race despite a significant significant game time than usual customers.
His ability to do something, and much, has led the club to look for other ways to keep it around the major league team.
He played 31 games in the central garden with Syracuse last season and has resumed the representatives prior to the game in the place.
Mets Outfield coach Antoan Richardson has been working with Acuña since spring training and believes that Acuña knows what he is doing in the center.
There are challenges when a picture player moves to the grass, in the garden, where there is much more land to cover in all directions, “360 works [degrees]While the box player works 180 [degrees]”Richardson described, adding that Acuña has demonstrated a quick study.
“It’s super athletic and super talented,” Richardson said about Acuña, whose Sprint speeds were classified as the seventh best in MLB entering. “I think he has the opportunity to be special anywhere in the field. If you put it in the central garden, I think it will be special.”
The Mets expect Bitch to have the same type of roof with their bat.
Bathy has demonstrated it in minors, possessing an OPS of .899 in 94 games with Syracuse.
He has shown spring training during the duration, when it seemed the best batter of the Mets and headed towards an inauguration.
But he has never replicated the results against the launch of the major leagues as well as now: Bathy entered a game after registering multiple hits in consecutive games and almost doubled his OP (.259 a .512) in four games.
Could you be discovering it?
“In Minnesota, he arrived at a really good fast ball that could reach a hard online trip through the campocorto,” said Mendoza. “[Thursday] We saw him stay inside a cutter, going to the other side, [then] Pull a tone through the right field line, using the entire field.
“When he does that, it’s a good batter.”
A week ago, the Mets could not take McNeil back to Queens quickly enough because the Second Base option could do anything with the bat.
Now Mendoza has fought with which the hot hitter must bench, giving Bathy the majority of the representatives against the right -handed ones but inserting Acuña frequently later in the games.
Alignment decisions are difficult, and it is likely that the decision of the list that is also approaching is a difficult decision.
“I hope that is the case,” said Mendoza.
