New York Mets: Top Five Current Players
By Kit Anderson
Coming off last year’s National League championship, the New York Mets are loaded with talent. Here are their best players.
The New York Mets have a lot of talent to choose from. They have a wealth of pitching and multiple established hitters who are having or have had great careers. The problem for them has been down years mixed with constant injuries.
Sorting out who is healthy and who is struggling leaves the roster with few players on it. The Mets haven’t been the team fans thought they were going to be coming into this season. The Marlins and Nationals have been much better than the Mets in a division where they were favorites to again challenge for the division title.
Despite the injuries, there are still plenty of players to consider for this list and many that deserved to make it because of the talent level didn’t quite make the cut. Before we begin the list here are a couple of those players who didn’t quite make it.
Curtis Granderson/ Jay Bruce– Bruce and Granderson deserve to be on the same team. They are much the same hitter. Low average high strikeout guys who know how to hit the ball out of the park. They have both had some impressive years on their resume but have failed to ever be consistent. Adding Bruce at the deadline wasn’t a smart move by the Mets. Adding a inconsistent strikeout prone hitter to an offense that is already streaky and strikeout prone was a bad idea. Both of these guys are good just not consistent enough to be considered the Mets top anything. Especially considering both of their career-bests happened in other team’s uniforms
Jeurys Familia– Back-to-back years saving forty games for a team like the Mets is no small feat. Familia has been a great reliever over the past few seasons and on a team with lesser talent would be a lock for a spot in the top five.
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