The first road trip, ten games in ten days, kicks off in the borough of Queens.
The Mets have been doing their best impression of a yo-yo these last three years. In 2022, they hired Buck Showalter to manage the team, and promptly exploded for 101 wins, their best season since 1988 when Strawberry and Gooden were still young and frisky. It only got them as far as the Wild Card, and San Diego sent them packing. So they added Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer to the group and collapsed to 75-87. This got Showalter fired, and GM David Eppier resigned.
They bounced back last season with an 89 win campaign, (barely) snuck into a Wild Card spot - from where they knocked off Milwaukee and Philadelphia before losing to the Dodgers in the NLCS. This off-season, Steve Cohen waved his deep, deep cheque book around, as he does, and the Mets won the Juan Soto sweepstakes. Which probably will work out better than the money he spent on Scherzer and Verlander.
This will be the Mets' home opener, and Juan Soto's welcome to his new digs. The Mets split their six game road trip to start the season, losing two of three low scoring games in Houston and winning two of three of the other sort in Miami. They're hitting .188/.275/.350 as a team - infielders Brett Baty and Mark Vientos are a combined 3-38 so far, which seems unlikely to continue. Their rotation a year ago was anchored by Luis Severino, Jose Quintana, and Sean Manaea, each of whom made at least 31 starts and worked at least 170 IP. That won't be happening this year, as Severino is an Athletic, Quintana is a Brewer, and Manaea is on the IL for at least the next six weeks. They signed Yankees reliever Clay Holmes and plan to use him in the rotation - hey, it worked for Michael King and the Padres - and they'll be hoping Griffin Canning looks better with an actual baseball team on his side. And Kodai Senga is back, after missing most of 2024 with first shoulder and then calf problems.
Matchups
Fri 4 April - Gausman (1-0, 3.00) vs Megill (1-0, 1.80)
Sat 5 April - Bassitt (1-0, 1.50) vs Canning (0-1, 3.18)
Sun 6 April - Francis (1-0, 3.00) vs Peterson (1-0, 3.00)
The Mets have been doing their best impression of a yo-yo these last three years. In 2022, they hired Buck Showalter to manage the team, and promptly exploded for 101 wins, their best season since 1988 when Strawberry and Gooden were still young and frisky. It only got them as far as the Wild Card, and San Diego sent them packing. So they added Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer to the group and collapsed to 75-87. This got Showalter fired, and GM David Eppier resigned.
They bounced back last season with an 89 win campaign, (barely) snuck into a Wild Card spot - from where they knocked off Milwaukee and Philadelphia before losing to the Dodgers in the NLCS. This off-season, Steve Cohen waved his deep, deep cheque book around, as he does, and the Mets won the Juan Soto sweepstakes. Which probably will work out better than the money he spent on Scherzer and Verlander.
This will be the Mets' home opener, and Juan Soto's welcome to his new digs. The Mets split their six game road trip to start the season, losing two of three low scoring games in Houston and winning two of three of the other sort in Miami. They're hitting .188/.275/.350 as a team - infielders Brett Baty and Mark Vientos are a combined 3-38 so far, which seems unlikely to continue. Their rotation a year ago was anchored by Luis Severino, Jose Quintana, and Sean Manaea, each of whom made at least 31 starts and worked at least 170 IP. That won't be happening this year, as Severino is an Athletic, Quintana is a Brewer, and Manaea is on the IL for at least the next six weeks. They signed Yankees reliever Clay Holmes and plan to use him in the rotation - hey, it worked for Michael King and the Padres - and they'll be hoping Griffin Canning looks better with an actual baseball team on his side. And Kodai Senga is back, after missing most of 2024 with first shoulder and then calf problems.
Matchups
Fri 4 April - Gausman (1-0, 3.00) vs Megill (1-0, 1.80)
Sat 5 April - Bassitt (1-0, 1.50) vs Canning (0-1, 3.18)
Sun 6 April - Francis (1-0, 3.00) vs Peterson (1-0, 3.00)
