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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2705620, member: 289"]
No reason to hate to say that. the big thing is: when are we going to have a year where we weren't devastated by injuries. It may be the "Curse of Citi Field" because we seem to have more than normal injury problems every year since we moved in there. Our opening day outfield of Cespedes, Conforto and Bruce had a total of 629 bases produced (TB + BB + SB) and 230 runs produced (RBI + RS -HR) this year. using their best previous years as Mets, (Cespedes 2016, Conforto 2017, Bruce 2017- including his stint with the Indians), they produced 914 bases and 387 runs. Then Frazier missed 50 games, Legares was batting .339 when he got hurt after 30 games and Travis d'Arnaud had his annual April injury that destroyed his season. 
d'Arnaud has played 397 games in six years, 66  a year. The Mets have played 972 games in those 6 years.  Cespedes has played in 308 of the 545 games the Mets have played since they acquired him.

By the way, Wheeler wasn't the only Mets pitcher who got it together down the stretch. Jason Vargas' picture was next to the word "horrible" in the dictionary most of the season, was 5-1 with a 2.82 ERA in his last 8 starts. I don't know what their plans for him are but he could be a piece of the puzzle next year.
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