Sample sizes are too small to condemn METS for their struggles with runners in punctuation position.
Upon entering the game on Saturday, they were hitting .178 (the second sausage in baseball) with an OPS of .615 (the sixth sausage in baseball) when there were runners in second and/or third base.
Only three weeks after the season, a few clutch hits in a few days can take the Mets from the bottom in the middle of the pack, but rising through that classification table has been a focus.
More useful than the baseline numbers to evaluate such a small amount of bat-174 that enters the play, is its quality.
What Eric Chávez has seen has suggested that his team is trying to do too much at crucial moments.
“Our swing rate is very high and our persecution rate is very high with the runners in the score position,” said the Mets co -breeder before a 3-0 win on the cardinals in Citi Field. “It’s something we are trying to address a child or flow with crime.”
He is right.
When the Mets have risen to the dish with the empty bases, they have revolved in 45.4 percent of the releases and pursued launches outside the Strike area 27.6 percent of the time.
Compare those numbers with the swing rate of 49.9 percent and 31.3 percent of the persecution rate when there is a runner in second and/or third, and perhaps you can explain the first struggles of the METS clutch.
“When nobody could, everyone is a little more relaxed,” Chávez said. “For me, that is an emotional response, instead of keeping it the same, just a good batter and balance in good releases and understand what the pitcher do and not do.”
It is difficult to treat each hit at the same time, and it is Easy to see a corridor in third place and get more or less put a ball at stake.
Chavez believes that his team is beginning to progress and highlighted Francisco Lindor.
On Tuesday in Minnesota, Lindor approached the dish in the ninth inning representing the possible tie race with two at the base.
He pursued a Curve of Jhoan Duran’s first release that was well below the area.
After saying goodbye to three balls, Hey turned through a divisor that the bottom of the area could have stranded and turned through a heat of 101.8 mph in the middle of the plate.
“I was very, very” I-Got-It “anxious,” said Chávez.
The two talked about the bat and about the establishment.
A day later, Lindor worked a qualitySix Pitch At-Bat against Griffin Jax in the eighth entrance that ended with a single before facing Duran again in the ninth and drawing a five-pitched walk.
“I found something that calmed me,” Lindor told him.
As a group, Mets are working to attack the same beats in the great moments as the little ones.
There is great potential within a group that has begun to explode, including the encouraging work of Lindor and Mark winds, who with Pete Alonso and Juan Soto can make the offensive special.
Chávez is confident that the group will join, and the weather that warms Urte Urte helps.
“We are not equally close to where we need to be,” Chávez said, “but thank God the pitchers are doing their job.”
