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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2593150, member: 289"]
METS SNAPSHOT ( as of 5/10/18)

A promising season seems to be going downhill for the Mets. I thought I’d take a snapshot look at the player’s performance. I decided to compare the batter’s career OPS to this year’s OPS and the pitcher’s career WHIP to their WHIP this year and note the per4cetnage difference. I then rank them from the best performance to the worst.

BATTERS (Minimum 10 games and not pitchers)
Asdrúbal Cabrera             career .756 this year .906 change: +19.8%
Brandon Nimmo               career .787 this year .921 change: +17.0%
Juan Lagares                      career .665 this year .732 change: +10.0%
Todd Frazier                       career .779 this year .769 change: -1.3% 
Wilmer Flores                    career .724 this year .714 change: -1.4%
Amed Rosario                    career .642 this year .609 change: -5.1%
Yoenis Céspedes              career .824 this year .772 change: -6.3%
Adrián González               career .846 this year .762 change: -9.9%
Jay Bruce                             career .788 this year .697 change: -11.5%
Jose Lobaton                     career .615 this year .521 change: -15.2%
Tomás Nido                        career .417 this year .342 change: -20.0%
Michael Conforto             career .823 this year .634 change: -23.0%
Jose Reyes                          career .764 this year .358 change: -53.1%

Comment: That’s 12 players, 9 of whom are playing before their norm although only 6 of them substantially so. Of course this includes all three periods of this season: the 11-1 start the 5-7 leveling off and the 1-8 disaster since. If I just looked at the last 9 games it would look a lot worse than this. Seeing Reyes at the bottom is sad. I remember when he broke in and people were wondering if his career would compare to Derek Jeter’s. He wasn’t Jeter but did have a very productive career for a while there. It seems to be over now. Of greater import is Conforto’s melt down, which looks similar to what happened in his second year, (OPS .745 after .841 as a rookie: he was .939 last year). It’s doubly disappointing as he’s our lead-off guy. It’s hard to get things going when your lead-off guy isn’t getting on base.

PITCHERS (at least 10 innings - I threw in Jerry Blevins who has 8.1IP as he’s still a key guy)
Paul Sewald                        career 1.14 this year 0.92 change: +19.3%
Jeurys Familia                    career 1.20 this year 1.00 change: +16.7%
Jacob deGrom                   career 1.115 this year 0.992 change: +11.0%
Steven Matz                      career 1.29 this year 1.16 change: +10.1%
Seth Lugo                            career 1.248 this year 1.125 change: +9.9%
Robert Gsellman              career 1.42 this year 1.28 change: +9.9%
Zach Wheeler                    career 1.40 this year 1.44 change: -2.9%
AJ Ramos                             career 1.25 this year 1.31 change: -4.8%
Noah Syndergaard          career 1.11 this year 1.20 change: -8.1%
Jerry Blevins                       career 1.23 this year 1.50 change: -22.0%
Hansel Robles                    career 1.27 this year 1.55 change: -22.0%
Matt Harvey                       career 1.19 this year 1.56 change: -22.7%
Jason Vargas                      career 1.32 this year 2.68 change: -103.0%

Comment: That’s 13 pitchers, 6 of which are on the plus side and by significant margins and 7 on the minus side including Syndergaard who has still been good, Blevins, Robles and Harvey, who have not and Vargas who has been a disaster. Overall, though I’d have to say that pitching has not really bee the problem. It’s been the bats. But when you aren’t scoring, anything else that is less than good matters.
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