New York Mets: The 2010’s All-Decade Team
By Jason Evans
All-Decade New York Mets Outfield
For these selections, I’m not going to follow left field, centerfield, and right field. We’re going to pick the three best outfielders period for the 2010’s New York Mets
Michael Conforto
The 2014 first-round pick made his major league debut the very next year, to help a club that was desperate for offense at the time. After going through a sophomore slump, the past three years have shown Conforto to be one of the more productive left-handed hitting outfielders in the game today, with one of the sweeter swings. He leads all outfielders in WAR, and homers (Lucas Duda does, but he’s out first baseman here) and RBI
Yoenis Cespedes
Talk about an impact trade. The New York Mets picked up Cespedes at the trade deadline in 2015 and all he did was absolutely catch fire. In 57 games, Cespedes hit .287 with a .942 OPS, 17 homers and 44 RBI.
The Mets re-signed him for 2016, and he was an All-Star and a top 10 MVP finisher. The club gave him four years after that, and the deal hasn’t quite worked out the way they thought, but he’ll be going into a contract year this year and is a total wild card.
Curtis Granderson
For much of the decade, the New York Mets didn’t really spend money. They dipped their toe in the free-agent waters after the 2013 season, by signing Granderson away from the crosstown Yankees.
All Granderson did was give the Mets three full seasons of 20+ homers, and some veteran leadership, before trading him in the final year of his deal in 2017.