How the New York Mets are Ruining Everything!

How do the New York Mets team keep winning? Why does this team keep winning baseball games? Didn’t they get the memo that they were buried a month ago?

Imagine a playoff rotation of Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Zack Wheeler, and Marcus Stroman with how he’s pitching this season. That is what’s on the table right now if the New York Mets keep winning these games like they are.

The Mets executed yet another comeback victory over the Washington Nationals on Friday to give them the series victory and boost their current hot streak to 21-6 since the All-Star Break, which is tops in baseball during that stretch. So yes, that means better than Houston (20-7), better than Cleveland (20-9), and even better than the presumed #1 seed in the National League Dodgers (18-9).

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This is not the best team in baseball, but it’s definitely the hottest and most apt to go on a postseason run. The only concern is whether or not they’re peaking too early. We just saw San Francisco get on a crazy hot streak shortly after the All-Star Break. But now they seem to be evening out and lose some steam with a record of 3-7 in the month of August so far.

What makes the Mets different? It has to be their starting rotation. The offense has stepped up and we’ve been seeing Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, and JD Davis go completely bonkers during this recent stretch. But looking at Murderer’s Row since the All-Star Break:

• Jacob deGrom
  • 3-0 record
  • 4 Earned Runs in 33 IP (1.09 ERA)
  • 44 Ks
• Noah Syndergaard
  • 2-1 Record
  • 9 Earned Runs in 42.1 IP (1.92 ERA)
  • 44 Ks
• Zack Wheeler
  • 3-0 Record
  • 3 Earned Runs in 20.1 IP (1.34 ERA)
  • 19 Ks
• Steven Matz
  • 2-1 Record
  • 11 Earned Runs in 28.4 IP (3.49 ERA)
  • 26 Ks

Marcus Stroman has struggled in his first two starts with the New York Mets, but Good Lord, even the Mets bullpen is starting to piece itself together with Seth Lugo and Justin Wilson throwing very well in their last few appearances.

The Mets’ pitching staff is now 2nd in baseball in team ERA since the All-Star Break, only behind the Indians. This is what happens when you get terrific starting pitching. The offense knows it doesn’t have to score a monumental amount of runs to win games, which, in turn, allows hitters to take looser/more relaxed approaches in their at-bats. And what we see now is a fluid Mets offense as a result.

The Dodgers are the best team in the National League, probably even in baseball, but the Mets could be the monkey wrench thrown into this whole equation that nobody saw coming. If this team can keep up this pace for the next month and a half, we’re going to potentially see a Dodgers-Mets showdown in October. Best case scenario would be if they got so hot that they passed Atlanta and won the division because then we could see a seven-game set between them and LA. The possibility of those two teams’ rotations matching up for a seven gamer is what every baseball fan should be praying for.

Nobody can believe what is happening in Queens right now. The New York Mets have gone from a buried team that got bested by Jerry DiPoto in the offseason for their two best prospects…………….to 0.5 games back in the Wild Card and 7 games back in the division with 6 games still to go against the Bravos……….riding the hottest winning streak in baseball.

It’s insane. It’s inexplicable. It shouldn’t be happening. But it is. So let’s just enjoy it, shall we? The Dodgers have some competition in the National League now.