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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1846001, member: 289"]
The Mets want to play "outside baseball"- get some guys on and have somebody hit the ball over the fence. I prefer the "inside baseball concept we saw the Royals use to beat the Mets in the Series- make good contact and run the bases aggressively to force errors. But I likely wouldn't be complaining if the two elements of outside baseball - getting on base and then hitting home runs- were both present. Unfortunately, they aren't.

Here are the on base percentages of the hitters the Mets have used this year in the games they have played with the Mets and their career on base percentages prior to this year or prior to their acquisitions by the Mets:

d' Arnaud  with 2016 Mets: .282 prior career:  .312  difference:   -30 points
Loney     .322     .339     -17
Walker     .338     .338     even
Cabrera     .308     .329     -21
Flores     .303     .286     +17
Conforto     .297     .335     -38
Cespedes     .362     .320     +42
Granderson    .322     .341     -19
De Aza    .293    .331    -38
Wright      .350     .377     -27
Lagares     .303     .297     +6
Duda      .297     .346     -49
Plaweckis     .301     .280     +21
R. Rivera      .295     .258    +37
Johnson      .333    .330    +3
Campbell      .270     .326     -56
Reyes     .278     .339     -61
Bruce     .238     .319     -81
Ruggerio     .167     .321     -154

Reynolds (.231), Nimmo (.297), Kelly (.262) and T. J. Rivera (.222) are rookies so there was no basis for comparison. I didn't average out the differences because the plate appearances varied considerably, (Ruggerio had 6). But 2/3 of the Mets (6 of 18, besides Walker who is even with his career norm) are below their career numbers. That holds up with the starting line-up, (above DeAza) where 5 of 7, (besides Walker) are sub-par. And the differences are pretty substantial.

I think Terry Collins is not so much the problem as Kevin Long is.
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