MILWAUKEE – As many as the Mets have struggled offensively, the president of the baseball operations does not blame his battle coaches.
David Stearns On Friday, Eric Chavez and Jeremy Barnes essentially acquitted for the collective malaise on the record that has spent a large part of the season, making it perhaps the most striking lately.
Before the Mets opened their series, Stearns spoke against the sizzling brewers on the American Family Field, indicated that he is committed to Chavez and Barnes, who shared the position of the battle coach for the past two seasons.
“I have faith in our battle coaches,” said Stearns. “I think we have good battle coaches. They have track records of helping lead and compiling real quality violations. This is sometimes baseball and it will make you crazy if you have talented players who continue like this.
“In the past few weeks we have really had a line -up that continues with this where we have not performed our possibilities, and it is frustrating, and everyone works as hard as they can turn this around, and I think we will do that.”
The Mets started the day with eight losses in nine games and had on average only 3.9 points per game over that piece. In general, the team was 15th in MLB when scoring at 4.35 points.
The frustration level was clear during the most recent home stand, in which the Mets scored four points or less in four of the six games against the Giants and Guardians. In the final home stand, the Mets were almost no-hit, which avoided the indignation on Juan Sotos Ninth Inning Thuis Run against Gavin Williams.
Chavez told the post he encouraged by the dedication that players show. He said that “eight or nine” players were out for early Friday, a participation level that he had never seen before.
“I love talking, that’s great, but the only message of mine is” work, “said Chavez.” Just work on it. I said them: if you are struggling with your backhand, what are you going to do? You are going to take back hand groundball. If you are struggling with pauses in the outfield, I just asked them to put the next two months in. I have. I have.
Under performance is clear in all quarters, starting with the stars of the team: Soto, Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso have all been put together in recent weeks.
Soto, after achieving National League Player of the Month Honors for June with a 1,196 Ops, has since returned to a level far below expectations. He started on Friday and had a .761 Ops since June 29.
“He has been one of the unfortunate batters in all baseball,” said Chavez. ‘And if you go bad [as a team]You need it to fall for you and start things. We just had a hard time to let things go collectively. “
If Chavez can find some comfort in the situation, it is that, despite their attacking struggles, on Friday, the Mets only came in 2 ½ games behind the Phillies in the NL East Race and 3 ½ lengths for the Reds for the third Wildcard.
“I think we all feel good as a group that we have not yet played at our best, and as a team we have been able to do quite good things,” said Chavez. “Our best offensive output is still on the road. Everything is just very difficult for us now.”
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