The Binghamton Rumble Ponies are the primary group this season to win 70 video games in both Double-A or Triple-A, however it’s the big-league Mets that followers predict to see win. A successful Double-A affiliate is good, however it’s not as good as retaking the division lead.
Going right into a three-game collection towards the group that owns the very best file in baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers, followers need blood. They need dwelling runs, massive leads and so they need hitting coach Eric Chavez fired. The previous third baseman has change into a wierd fixation of the fanbase this season, with many blaming heaping the entire blame for the lineup’s hitting woes on Chavez. They’ve completed a lot psychological gymnastics attempting to create narratives about Chavez that they’ve twisted into pretzels.
No love for Moneyball? No blame for Jeremy Barnes?
President of baseball operations David Stearns reiterated his assist for the hitting group, which extends past simply Barnes and Chavez, on Friday afternoon in Milwaukee.
“I have confidence in our hitting coaches, I think we have good hitting coaches, and they have track records of helping to be, and put together quality offenses,” Stearns instructed reporters forward of the collection opener. “This is, at times, baseball, and it will drive you crazy.”
The fact is that there’s loads of blame to go round for the 27-30 file since June 1. After practically getting no-hit by the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday, supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned if he was going to level fingers at anybody, it will be himself. The supervisor has made questionable bullpen strikes in latest months, and his job is regularly made harder by restrictions on his beginning pitchers.
Nonetheless, each supervisor makes questionable bullpen strikes and is confronted with beginning pitching restrictions at sure factors within the season. Mendoza is not any totally different. The Mets nonetheless place confidence in Mendoza’s administration due to what he did final season, particularly within the playoffs.
So with that mentioned, let’s dispel just a few myths surrounding the offense.
Chavez isn’t the chief architect of the Mets’ strategy on the plate. The Mets don’t have one foundational philosophy on the subject of their strategy, as followers have asserted. The Mets’ hitting group tailors recreation plans to the person hitters, giving them a recreation plan to execute after they go as much as the plate. From there, it’s on the hitters to execute.
What the Mets want to seek out out is why they’re failing to execute, and whether or not it’s as a result of they don’t belief the plans given to them, in the event that they don’t perceive the duty at hand or one thing else.
One other narrative that has taken maintain on social media is that Mets hitters most popular J.D. Martinez over Barnes and Chavez final season. Whereas Martinez was a powerful clubhouse presence and a very good asset to the 2024 group, he was removed from managing the hitting division. Martinez liked speaking about hitting and was all the time beneficiant along with his time when teammates requested for recommendation, however that is no totally different than when Francisco Lindor had Tyrone Taylor in his lodge room to work on hitting strategies earlier this season.
Do the Mets miss Martinez’s speeches? Possibly. “Let’s suck together” turned as a lot of a rallying cry within the postseason as “Omg” was final summer season. However the former DH has by no means expressed any curiosity in changing into a hitting coach. Whereas he hasn’t formally retired, Martinez remains to be unsigned. He appears to be having fun with life in South Florida enjoying pickleball and fishing for lobsters.
Should you can’t inform already, the Mets are likely to belief “track records.” They belief the monitor data of their elite hitters, and whereas they definitely will not be pleased with how the offense has carried out as of late, historical past tells them that this lineup will begin to produce once more.
However they may need to begin producing on Friday evening. The Mets have slipped from first place within the NL East to 3rd place within the NL Wild Card standings.
Initially Printed: August 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM EDT
