The Mets look completely incompetent

New York has now lost 11 straight games to fall to 7-15 on the year, their worst start to a season since 1983.

What’s Up with the Mets? ⚾️

• The Mets lost their 11th game in a row, falling 2-1 to the Cubs on Sunday — they are 7-15 on the season (box)

• The club went with an opener on Sunday, giving the ball to Tobias Myers for the first two innings, during which he allowed no runs. David Peterson followed him with 3.2 scoreless innings of relief. Huascar Brazoban, Brooks Raley and Luke Weaver combined for 2.1 scoreless innings of relief as well, but it was Devin Williams who allowed a game-tying RBI double to Michael Conforto in the ninth, and Craig Kimbrel allowed the ghost runner to score in the 10th

• DH MJ Melendez provided the only offense for the Mets on this day, a solo home run in the fifth, one of only two extra-base hits among the six total hits the club notched on Sunday

• The 11-game losing streak is the longest for the Mets since the 2004 season, and the 7-15 start is their worst since 1983

• New York has scored two runs or less in nine of their last 11 total games

• The Mets went 1-for-9 with RISP in the loss, and stranded six runners on-base

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Play of the Game 🤬

It was a former Met who changed the complexion of the Mets latest loss on Sunday.

Michael Conforto ripped an RBI double off of Devin Williams in the ninth inning to plate another former Met in Pete Crow-Armstrong tie the game for the Cubs at 1-1 and pretty much send the Mets on their way to their 11th straight loss.

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The Just Mets Podcast 🎙️

After the Mets latest deflating loss on Sunday, Andrew and Rich commiserated about the miserable week for the club as they went winless on their road trip, and discussed the safety of the manager.

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Down on the Farm 🌾

• LHP Jonathan Santucci (no. 9 prospect, AA): 4 IP, 2 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 5 K

• INF Elian Peña (no. 8 prospect, High-A): 3-for-5, 2B, 3 RBI, R

AA Binghamton was no-hit on Sunday, dropping a 4-0 contest to the Akron RubberDucks.

BOX SCORES

Single-A STL | High-A BRK | Double-A BNG | Triple-A SYR (PPD)

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Today’s Game 🗓

The Mets are off on Monday. They open a three-game series with the Twins at Citi Field on Tuesday.

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Absolutely pathetic! ✍️

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There’s not a whole lot left to say about this organization, is there?

They think they’re so smart, and they have it all figured out. David Stearns said after Edwin Díaz walked, followed soon thereafter by Pete Alonso, that there was a lot of off-season left and insisted the Mets would have a roster for 2026 that people would be pleased about.

They went out and signed players. They went out and spent a ton of money on those players. They tried to reduce the volatility, improve in the areas they felt compromised them in 2025, and insisted they had it right this time.

It didn’t bother them they signed a career shortstop who was below average defensively to play third base (Bo Bichette).. It didn’t bother them that they moved a solid defensive third baseman who was finally feeling comfortable into a role where he was playing positions he has never played before at this level (Brett Baty). It didn’t bother them that they signed a career oft-injured middle infielder to play first base who had never logged a single inning there (Jorge Polanco). It didn’t bother them that they were keeping another player who was basically good at one thing and nothing else and relying on him for a prominent role on this roster well into April (Mark Vientos who, to be fair has been decent so far at first). It didn’t bother them at all that they let their departed, all-time great first baseman walk (Pete Alonso) and not replace him with an actual first baseman, when many were available to them.

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Not in the least. On any of those matters.

Yet, here we are, with every single one of those players underperforming or not even playing on both sides of the ball for the New York Mets.

Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

But honestly, I don’t even think that’s this club’s biggest problem right now. It’s a big part of it, of course. And, they can say whatever they want about it, but it’s all in plain sight with all of them.

Anyway, their biggest problem is that, in the midst of a historic losing streak for this franchise, nothing is changing. They keep running the same formula that fails them time and time again out there. They keep employing the same impatient, offensive approach that is yielding a minimal amount of baserunners and a complete inability to move runners around the bases and score runs. And when they do get baserunners, their running game is generally absent (after a year of brilliance on the bases thanks to the departed Antoan Richardson).

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There’s no power, there’s no movement. And it’s the same old, same old every single day with no apparent adjustments or change in approach. They can’t even score ghost runners this season.

This isn’t negativity. This is a fact.

It’s their job to stay positive, it’s Mendoza’s job to shield them from the noise and calls for drastic change. But, it’s also their job to adjust in a game that is defined by adjustments, and they just don’t, which is why they keep making the same physical and mental mistakes behind their pitchers, and the same empty results at the plate in support of their pitchers.

I guess they did make one change for Sunday when they ran Tobias Myers out there to open the game for David Peterson. That did seem to help Peterson, who turned in a quality relief appearance over 3.2 IP.

But that’s merely a moral victory in all of this.

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I am not going to sit here and quote the offensive statistics for you today. The analysis is done at this point. It’s the same story every day for this lineup no matter who Mendoza runs out there. The same helpless, hapless absence of a pulse. They score one run per game, can’t hit with runners in scoring position, and they all have the same, defeated look on their faces after every empty at-bat.

And, if this lineup is truly dependent on Juan Soto not just being present, but being himself without ever getting into a slump, the problems with this team run even deeper than we think right now.

Sunday had all sorts of angles to ride the Mets over. You can hit them over the offense, which is the obvious argument to make. You can hit them over not walking Nico Hoerner in the ninth inning to set up a double play, which is debatable. You can get on Devin Williams for not making a big pitch to hold the game at 1-0 and end this losing streak.

In the end, it’s probably a little of all of that except for the offense, which is unquestionably the underlying root cause for the loss, and pretty much all of these 11 losses minus two or three.

The offense is flat out and absolutely pathetic. Period, end of story.

And, I do think they’re completely incompetent right now. They are among the worst teams in this sport since last June.

I do think Mendoza is going to pay the ultimate price for all of this, perhaps sooner rather than later. But it’s not his fault, and whether it’s Kai Correa or somebody else inside the organization that replaces him if such a move occurs, it won’t matter. Sure, you can question lineup construction, you can question bullpen usage, you can question a lot of other things. But the roster itself is non-competitive at this point, and neither Mendoza, Correa, nor anybody else who could manage this team built it, nor can they mitigate the deep flaws which are unquestionably apparent with this team.

So, aim higher, way higher with your calls for change.

And I seriously don’t want to hear another reporter or fan, for that matter, mention the playoffs and their odds and the historical context with respect to making the playoffs after going through this kind of losing streak. Like, don’t mention it. It’s silly to even consider. I also don’t want to hear about how there are good things happening with one player or another and how everyone is following whatever process they’re following.

This club couldn’t be any further from that conversation right now.

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Around the League 🚩

• Shohei Ohtani reached base for the 51st straight game in the Dodgers 9-6 win over the Rockies

• The Blue Jays put up an eight spot in the first inning on the Diamondbacks as they rolled to a 10-4 win

• Ben Rice hit his eighth homer and Aaron Judge his ninth as the Yankees rolled to a 7-0 win over the Royals

• Mitch Keller gave the Pirates seven strong innings as the Pirates improved to 13-9 in their 6-3 win over the Rays