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Versus the team that will take the field in Atlanta.

Mets Opening Day Roster

Position Players:
Francisco Alvarez
Omar Narvaez
Pete Alonso
Jeff McNeil
Francisco Lindor
Zack Short
Brett Baty
Joey Wendle
Brandon Nimmo
Starling Marte
Harrison Bader
Tyrone Taylor
DJ Stewart

Starting Pitchers:
Luis Severino
Sean Manaea
Jose Quintana
Tylor Megill
Adrian Houser

Bullpen:
Edwin Diaz
Brooks Raley
Adam Ottavino
Jake Diekman
Drew Smith
Michael Tonkin
Yohan Ramirez
Jorge Lopez

Players in bold are the ones remaining. 7 out of 13 position players remain with the club. 4 out of 5 starting pitchers. Only 2 of the original 8 relievers remain from opening day. Overall, 13 of the original 26 are gone. Roster turnover of 50%.

(Edited to remove Jeff McNeil, who I forgot was hurt)

Jeez, I had already forgotten about Adrian Houser.

New Additions:

Position Players:
Luis Torrens
Luisangel Acuna
Jose Iglesias
Eddie Alvarez
Mark Vientos
Jesse Winker
JD Martinez

Starting Pitchers:
David Peterson

Relief Pitchers
Huascar Brazoban
Jose Butto
Reed Garrett
Phil Maton
Ryan Stanek
Alex Young
Danny Young

15 new faces

We hardly knew you:

Players come and gone in 2024:

Ty Adcock
Paul Blackburn
Matt Festa
Grant Hartwig
Tyler Jay
Joey Lucchesi
Dedniel Nunez
Eric Orze
Sean Reid-Foley
Christian Scott
Kodai Senga
Cole Sulser
Julio Teheran
Josh Walker
Joe Hudson
Tomas Nido
Pablo Reyes
Ben Gamel

18 Additional players. It's hard to believe that Julio Teheran started a game for the 2024 Mets. Joe Hudson looks like he's a back up catcher. No memory of him whatsoever.

Hudson was an extra guy they had for London, I believe.

The one small decision on backup infielders, adding Iglesias to the roster out of spring training instead of Short and/or Wendle, could have made a big difference.

Later

IIRC that team started the season losing three to Milwaukee.
Let's turn that around.

Later

Hopefully those removed relievers have found good jobs in another field, and I don’t mean another baseball field