New York Mets: Team preview and prediction for 2020 season
By Sean Basile
They’re a young team with a bad front office, but their roster is good enough to shock the world. Will the New York Mets be the Cinderella team of 2020?
It’s been a whirlwind for the New York Mets these last seven months mixed with extreme highs and gut-wrenching lows. But through a series of heartbreaking lows lies a scrappy team that’s hungry to prove everybody wrong once again, and 2020 might just be a surprisingly sensational season for the ole Metropolitans.
The Mets have been through a roller coaster of emotions dating back to 2019 when they closed on an impressive run in the dog days of August only to come up a little short of that final Wild Card spot. In the process of their over-performance, Pete Alonso had the huge rookie season he had breaking Aaron Judge‘s rookie home runs record and Jacob deGrom repeated as NL CY Young.
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But unfortunately, with those moral highs came the dredging lows as they hired Carlos Beltran in the offseason only to fire him not long after due to his involvement in the 2017 Astros cheating scandal. This left the Mets without a manager as Spring Training was rapidly approaching.
There was also the circus that was Fred Wilpon possibly selling the team with suitors like Alex Rodriguez throwing their hats in the ring, only to see the whole thing fall through.
And in most recent news, Noah Syndergaard will now require Tommy John surgery and won’t return to action for at least a year. This sets back a Mets rotation that was primed to break through this year with the additions the team made at the trade deadline last year and the following offseason with Marcus Stroman, Michael Wacha, and Rick Porcello.
Are we back to seeing the same old Mets being the clown show that they are, or will we be seeing a revitalized Mets team that comes into 2020 and absolutely smashes?
Probably to your bewilderment, I’m going to say the latter because I love so many aspects of this team. They might not be all that functional at the top, but the group they have in that dugout is a group with a chip on its shoulder that will surprise everybody with how much winning it can do.