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NEW YORK DAWN™ > Blog > Sports > Mike Lupica: With All-Star Break close to, each Mets and Yankees present no actual signal they’ll make one other deep postseason push
Mike Lupica: With All-Star Break close to, each Mets and Yankees present no actual signal they’ll make one other deep postseason push
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Mike Lupica: With All-Star Break close to, each Mets and Yankees present no actual signal they’ll make one other deep postseason push

Last updated: July 11, 2025 11:57 am
Editorial Board Published July 11, 2025
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We’re transferring up on the All-Star Break now, and nonetheless don’t know at this level if both the Mets or the Yankees are deep sufficient or adequate — or well-constructed sufficient by their big-ticket normal managers — to make it as far into the playoffs as they did final yr.

Simply off what we’ve seen from them over the previous month, each groups having performed an terrible lot of JV baseball, neither one in all our groups appears adequate to win all of it, which is meant to be the thing of the sport for each of them after they did go as deep as they did final October.

Actually, all we all know with any sort of readability in the mean time is that the Mets and the Yankees — meaning Hal Steinbrenner and Steve Cohen — are paying greater than $600 million on groups not adequate to be in first place of their divisions. In addition they occur to be groups, not less than for now, that look to be filled with holes.

Which one is best with the break approaching? The Mets are, if not by rather a lot. Going off the season performed thus far, their finest remains to be higher than the Yankees’ finest, if for no different purpose than they’ve Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto and Pete Alonso on the high of their batting order. The Yankees? They’ve Aaron Decide, as soon as once more trying like 99 out of 100 each single time he involves the plate.

Does Decide have assist? Certain. Cody Bellinger has been swell and Jazz Chisholm Jr. appears to be again in his joyful place now that he’s again at second base, and now that Hal Steinbrenner — please cease calling this man low-cost — simply took a $22 million haircut to unload one other dangerous contract, this one belonging to DJ LeMahieu. And not less than one in all their high children, Jasson Dominguez, appears to be approaching even when Anthony Volpe remains to be going the incorrect approach far too usually.

However even with the Yankees mashing the best way they’ve in opposition to the Mariners this week, it was the Mets who confirmed all of their top-of-the-order prospects the opposite evening in Baltimore. They had been dropping 6-2, late. Then Lindor hit a 2-run homer and Alonso did the identical and Juan Soto lastly produced the game-winning RBI within the tenth.

It didn’t go that approach in Recreation 1 of their doubleheader in opposition to the Orioles on Thursday afternoon. For those who watched, . Mets had second and third, no one out. Then Soto struck out and Alonso struck out earlier than Jesse Winker (now harm once more) made the third out of the inning. So it was simply 1-0 Mets within the eighth after they acquired Ryan Stanek-ed and misplaced.

They want pitching. So do the Yankees. They want beginning pitching and so they want for Stanek to not have as large a task in Carlos Mendoza’s bullpen as he does. However they’re about to get again their ace, Kodai Senga. They’re getting again Sean Manaea, such an enormous piece for them a yr in the past. David Peterson, the de facto ace in Senga’s absence, was terrific on Thursday afternoon within the first recreation of the doubleheader earlier than he left with a shutout after 90 pitches and watched the underside of the eighth explode simply sufficient to value them what was shaping as much as be a reasonably candy win.

“We didn’t execute,” Mendoza stated, speaking about all of the runners they left on base.

“I didn’t execute,” Stanek stated, explaining how a slider that he needed to be down ended up turning into what Reggie Jackson used to name a mattress ball for Gunnar Henderson. “The kind you just lay on,” is the best way Reggie described fats pitches like that one.

So for yet another afternoon, this one in Baltimore, July regarded just like the dangerous components of June. Now David Stearns has work to do on the Commerce Deadline, and even with Senga and Manaea on their approach again into the rotation. Might Stearns use one other dynamic right-handed bat? Yeah, he might. Largely he wants pitching if the Mets are going to make a run.

At their finest, and looking out even fairly well-armed, the Mets truly appear like the sort of dynamic crew that would win all of it this time. And once more: I consider their finest is best than the Yankees’ finest. Now we’re about to see if they’ll play the sort of ball in August and September the best way they did in August and September of ’24, after they actually began to appear like what they had been by October: The most effective groups anyplace. After they did get to October, they needed to beat a terrific Brewers crew, then the Phillies, earlier than lastly operating into the  finest crew on this planet within the Nationwide League Championship Collection, which implies the Dodgers. All that was taking part in out for them, after all, whereas the Yankees acquired a draw of their league, in opposition to the American League Central, that was merely a dream for them.

Now it’s the Yankees who appear to want reinforcements coming over the hill much more than the Mets do. They want a 3rd baseman now that Chisholm has moved throughout the infield to second and LeMahieu is on his method to Hicksville. Not on Lengthy Island. Aaron Hicksville. They want not less than yet another starter now that Clarke Schmidt is misplaced for the season. And — cease me for those who’ve heard this one earlier than — that is one other Commerce Deadline after they want bullpen assist.

We all know how the Yankees and Mets have checked out their finest this season. By now we might all educate a grasp class on what their worst appears like. However check out the groups within the Wild Card scrum behind each of them today. Earlier than you speak about making one other deep run in October, you need to make it to October.

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