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May-be a tough month

Frayed Knot May 05 2016 03:38 AM

Now that the Braves are out of the way, the month of May quickly gets a lot tougher. - Yeah SD (4 games) isn't particularly good and even the Dodgers (also 4) & Rox (3) are currently sitting just a notch above & below .500, but eleven-game/three-city west coast road trips with no days off are never an easy thing. - we then come home for our first series with the Nationals. - a quick breather as the Brewers visit next, but that's followed by a series [u:2v1neizt]in[/u:2v1neizt] Washington - then a day off to travel back to NYC just to see the Dodgers again followed by the surprising ChiSox which takes us to June 1st. I guess mainly it's just a lot tougher as compared to our slate so far which, aside from that opening series in KC, involved neither a lot of travel nor any top teams.

TransMonk May 05 2016 01:22 PM Re: May-be a tough month

The silver lining is that they have done what they are supposed to do against the weaker teams. They are besting last season's record to this point (and 2015 included that improbable 11 game win streak in April). It's still early and I try not to glean too much about the season until around Memorial Day, but as has been noted in a couple of other threads, it seems as if the NL this season is sharply divided between the "haves" and "have-nots". The Dodgers should be in the "have" group", but it's hard to tell how good they truly are yet. I'm hoping the Mets continue to cruise...even with the tougher schedule.

Centerfield May 05 2016 01:44 PM Re: May-be a tough month

That's a terrific point FK. It's important that the Mets get off to a quick start and take care of business against the lower division teams like San Diego and Milwaukee. The head-to-head games against Washington are really going to be critical, and may end up deciding the ultimate winner of this division. They'll have to watch for LA, who will be looking for revenge after last fall, and Colorado is always a tough place to play. The Mets have to just focus and think about collecting wins. That's what they have to do, collect wins. Win ball games, and they'll be in good shape.

Benjamin Grimm May 05 2016 01:53 PM Re: May-be a tough month

They should also try to collect super delegates.

TransMonk May 05 2016 02:36 PM Re: May-be a tough month

BOC!

Frayed Knot May 14 2016 01:08 PM Re: May-be a tough month

Super delegates might be a good idea right about now because, as far as I can tell, that's how you win even while being consistently out-scored, right Hillary? Anyway, the west coast portion of our May slog needs victories in these final two games in Denver in order to come home with a winning record (currently 4-5). But it's not going to get any easier after that. There's a decent possibility that the upcoming 13-game stretch (10 at home) that will take us to June 1st will involve another meeting with Mr. Kershaw, plus one with Chris Sale [8-0, 1.67], plus maybe two each against Strasburg & Scherzer. And it's not like these recent outings against the likes of Drew Pomeranz, Jon Gray, or Colin Rea (combined 3 runs on 9 hits over 20 innings vs that trio) are doing a lot to build confidence for those other guys.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 14 2016 01:17 PM Re: May-be a tough month

May splits: Grandy .146/.196 /.333 Wright .194 /.419/.387 Conforto .143/.200/.262 Cespy .255/.352/.553 Doodoo .189/.318 /.459 Walker .121/.216/.152 Cabrera .277/.333/.404 Plawecki .242/.324/.455 Plawecki is the only one hitting better in May than in April, Cabrera only a small dropoff but other than that, phew. S-T-I-N-K-Y

Chad Ochoseis May 14 2016 06:59 PM Re: May-be a tough month

If our rough stretch this season means one player with a .900+ OPS and one player with an .800+ OPS, and a won-loss record around .500, sign me up. - Chad Ochoseis, the optimistic Mets fan

Frayed Knot Jun 02 2016 12:51 PM Re: May-be a tough month

And thus we conclude this portion of schedule we pre-identified as a rough patch with a 12-14 record, starting that stretch 1.5 games out of 1st and ending 3.0 out. Not terrible I suppose especially in light of first Flores going down, then Duda, and now Wright, plus dealing for most of that time with the ghost of Matt Harvey. Most disappointing were the very beginning (losing the first two to the Padres) and then the very end, losing twice to a team that was good when I included them in this stretch but playing pretty shitty by the time we faced them. The 12-10 in between looks much better but don't most stretches when you cherry-pick the bad parts out? June looks like more of a mixed bag. On the plus side there's four at Milwaukee and [u:3kvb3lgq]seven[/u:3kvb3lgq] vs Atlanta (3H/4R). But then there's six vs Pitt, in-division three game series at both Miami and Washington, and the two-game CitiField version to complete the home-and-home tussle vs KC