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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5034123, member: 27"] Frustrating to watch this offense. So many innings begin with a runner getting on first. So many innings, the runner is not moved to second. No situational hitting. Players get ahead in the count and instead of taking a walk, swing at high fastballs out of the strike zone and pop up or strike out. Alvarez looks terrific. Hitting it hard a lot. Showing far better plate discipline than veterans like Alonso. Alonso has at least shown a willingness to go opposite field on outside pitches. He is best when he hits to all fields. Hope he remembers that. Encouraged by Marte, who is hitting some balls hard and look close to his old self. Baty looks good. I hope management gives him the chance to play every day at 3B. He has a really nice swing. DJ Stewart should never have made the team and I hope he gets released when JD Martinez is ready. I suspect he will. Vientos was our best hitter in spring training (5 HRs) and is killing it in Syracuse. Unfortunate his path to playing time is blocked by JD. I would just as soon devote this year to seeing what the kids can do. Hopefully JD can serve as an alternate to the hitting coach, who is not helping the team early. Bader is off to a bad start. Has missed a number of chances to make good plays in CF. And has looked helpless against a simple curve ball. Like Bartolo Colon, only moreso. It looks to me as though he is trying to hit home runs. It would be better if he just tried to make good contact. Expecting Drew Gilbert to take his place in CF sometime by the end of the year. I remember when Jeff McNeil was first called up to the Mets. He was on top of everything. Hit the ball hard very consistently. And he stayed close to that level for a couple of years. Last year, he was lost most of the year. Struggled to get above .200 for most of the season. Finally found it and got hot late to get his average near .270. He is lost again. His swing speed is way down and he almost never makes solid contact. Hope he finds himself soon. Acuna is not far away in Syracuse and Jett Williams is just behind him. I know he had a bicep injury in the spring. It looks like there is still something very wrong. Manaea looked really good last night. His control was on point. It is a shame he did not get a win. Could be one of those years it is better to watch the team in Syracuse than the one in Queens. [/QUOTE]

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