If you wanted to draw up a nightmare season for David Stearns, it would pretty much look exactly like this. We keep reminding ourselves that it\u2019s still incredibly early, but you can\u2019t help but worry that this will be a lost season when your team loses eight games in a row by the middle of April. And even with the lineup being the team\u2019s biggest problem right now, it felt all too fitting that Devin Williams had his first terrible outing as a Met in the team\u2019s series finale in Los Angeles, turning a game that would\u2019ve involved Edwin D\u00edaz coming in for a save opportunity against the Mets into a blowout that no longer required his services.<\/p>\n
Not every player who Stearns jettisoned is off to a hot start, but of the five new faces that were in the Mets\u2019 lineup on Opening Day, only Luis Robert Jr. is hitting above league average so far this season. The rotation has major question marks after David Peterson\u2019s recent run of bad starts and Kodai Senga\u2019s particularly awful start his last time out. And after emphasizing run prevention early in the offseason as the team said goodbye to Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo, and Jeff McNeil, the Mets\u2019 defense looks anything but sharp as there are several players learning new positions on the job.<\/p>\n
Things can\u2019t get much worse than they are right now, but there\u2019s no optimism about this team at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you wanted to draw up a nightmare season for David Stearns, it would pretty much look exactly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,81311,7536,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-677680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago-cubs-game-information","10":"tag-chicago-cubs-series-previews","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116420542646473527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}