You mean one guy who's hit less than .220 for his career and two other guys who've hit less than .250 for their careers are struggling to hit? That's the problem with Sandyball...as much as the new cool thing to do is to completely ignore batting averages and get all excited about guys who occasionally draw walks and hit home runs, you do gotta hit SOME. I get that they were going to be put in the best possible position to succeed here (keeping Vogelbach away from lefties, etc), but the problem with those low-BA guys is that when they go cold, they go COLD. As in never seeming to get a hit, and whiffing constantly...but, those guys do tend to fatten up against the crap teams, and the Mets have plenty of those to face in September.
Alonso with a .588 OPS over his last 21 GP. And that's really hurting the Mets right now...hope he picks it back up again soon.
Joely...well that guy sucks. Sucks even more that he constantly gets chance after chance to show us just how much.
Not feeling panicked at the moment...helps that the Braves have failed to take advantage the last couple of games. 32 games left...if the Mets go 18-14 (seems very reasonable given the opponents on tap), Braves would have to go 22-10. So basically they still have to remain hot to take the East. And of course if the Mets get into 19-13 or better territory, makes it that much harder on the Braves.