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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3931594, member: 289"]
A good article on the Mets and Jeff McNeil's woes:
[URL unfurl="true"]https://theathletic.com/2780903/2021/08/20/jeff-mcneils-struggles-are-a-proxy-for-the-mets-larger-approach-issues/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983[/URL]

"We want him to be ready to hit, but which pitch are you looking for? That’s where we are with him.”

That’s where the Mets are with more players than McNeil, who’s a proxy here for their larger efforts to modify plate approaches that have not excelled this season the way they have in the recent past. Discipline was one of those keywords that owner Steve Cohen mentioned in his tweet Wednesday, and yes, the best offenses are more disciplined than New York’s. The Mets have the eighth-highest chase rate in baseball.

That has created a double whammy: The Mets don’t get into good hitters’ counts often (they’ve had the fewest plate appearances in the National League that end with the batter ahead), and they don’t capitalize on them when they do (they’re 14th in the NL in OPS when ahead in the count).

No team in the NL has seen fewer 3-0 counts, and the Mets are hitting only .157 when they get them. It’s not just that New York didn’t get to a 3-0 count Thursday; it didn’t even see a three-ball count against seven Los Angeles pitchers.

The Mets don’t see a lot of pitches to begin with (3.80 per plate appearance this season, 14th in the NL), and they’re seeing even fewer (3.75) in August."
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