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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 1823782, member: 767"]
I agree with that.  Like I said, I think they're probably going to stay in the race.  I'm just not as emotionally invested right now as I was last season.

Cespedes has been pretty much awesome.

I agree with some of what you said, disagree with other things.  And I'll cop to thinking before the season this team looked real strong and obviously that hasn't worked out.

1) Wright- 100% agree you could not have expected him to get through the season.  In hindsight obviously you bring Murphy back, and there was even the argument at the time to do so and have him to cover for third when the inevitable Wright injury happened.  But it's hard for the Mets to pay Murphy $13-14 million a year and not be an every day player when the season started.  And the Walker for Niese trade has worked out pretty well.  But they should have had a better plan in place for Wright getting hurt
2) They really had no backup plan at first for a Duda injury. Loney has been ok, but it took them a while to get him, and we had to endure a lot of Eric Campbell AB.
3) Honestly, the biggest real problem this year has been hitting with men in scoring position.  And I don't think that's something you can project.  Granderson has a 270 OBP and a 197 slugging (!) with RISP this year.  That's one extra base hit all year.  Last year he had a 433 OBP and a 516 Slug with RISP, for his career 337/442.  Cabrera has a 286 OBP and a 213 Slug with RISP, for his career 325 OBP and a 383 Slug.  Duda has a 294 OBP and a 222 Slug, career 377/434.

So I don't know.  No one could have projected those guys to hit this bad with RISP.  But it's happened.  I assume it will revert as the season goes on, but maybe it doesn't.  So h ere we are.
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