Where do the Mets go from here?
The Mets are the worst team in baseball with no signs of getting better as the calendar flips to May
What’s Up with the Mets? ⚾️
The Mets continue to sink into the abyss with a 5-4 loss to the Nationals to drop the series (box)
The Mets have dropped 17 of their last 20 games and own the worst record in baseball
RHP Freddy Peralta, was solid but gave up three unearned runs thanks in part to his own error. His final line was 6.0 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, and 6 K
The team actually had a lead heading into the eighth, but Luke Weaver gave up a two-run home run that sealed the team’s descent into the Mariana trench
LF MJ Melendez went 2-for-2 with a home run and three RBIs that tied the game before he was inexplicably pinch hit for in the eighth
1B Mark Vientos did manage to put the Mets ahead in the sixth with a double
The Mets went just 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position on Thursday
Roster Moves 📰
RHP Carl Edwards Jr. was designated for assignment
RHP Austin Warren was recalled from Triple-A
INF Eric Wagaman was recalled from Triple-A Syracuse
Claimed INF Andy Ibáñez off waivers from the A’s
Injury Updates 🏥
OF Luis Robert Jr. (lumbar spine disc herniation) was placed on the IL retroactive to April 27
The Just Mets Podcast 🎙️
On the latest midweek edition of The Just Mets Podcast, Andrew reacts to the Mets continuing their losing ways as they drop their series to the Nationals and lose for the 17th time in their last 20 games…
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Play of the Game 🤬
There was a brief fleeting moment where it seemed the Mets might actually win not only a ballgame but a series. Mark Vientos gave them a lead with an RBI double and all they had to do was hold it. They could not. CJ Abrams hit a two-run shot off Luke Weaver which was the dagger for a team that has no fight once getting down in the late innings.
Who’s Cold 🥶
SS Ronny Mauricio is hitting just .160/.160/.160 with four hits, two runs, and 10 strikeouts in his last 25 at-bats
RF Brett Baty was hitless in the finale against Washington and is hitting .217/.308/.391 with one home run and five RBIs over his last seven games
2B Marcus Semien is hitting .192/.222/.231 with three runs scored and one RBI over his last seven games
Not clutch 👎🏻
The Mets are hitting just .227 with runners in scoring position, the fourth-worst mark in baseball. They’re hitting just .150 with two outs and runners in scoring position, the worst mark in baseball.
The Mets are hitting .250 with the bases loaded this season, the 10th-worst mark in the game, and their 20 runs scored in such situations in the eighth-worst mark in the game
Down on the Farm 🌾
OF AJ Ewing (No. 3 prospect, Triple-A): 2-for-4, 2 R, SB
1B Christian Arroyo (Triple-A): 3-for-4, R, RBI, K
C Kevin Parada (Double-A): 3-for-5, R, RBI, K
BOX SCORES
Single-A SLU | High-A BRK | Double-A BNG | Triple-A SYR
Today’s Game 🗓
Match-up: Mets (10-21) vs. Angels (12-20)
Where: Angel Stadium -Anaheim, CA
Starters: RHP Christian Scott (0-0, 6.75 ERA) vs. RHP Walbert Urena (0-3, 4.76 ERA)
When: 9:38 PM EDT
Where to Watch: WPIX
April was a cruel month to the Mets - it’s time to turn the page! ✍️
So, that happened.
April certainly was the cruelest month for the 2026 New York Mets. They are 10-20, 7-18 in April, and 11.5 games back in the division. Before the series with Washington, the only silver lining was that they had yet to play any team within the NL East and could potentially make up ground.
Well, now they have, and it did not go well.
They dropped two of three against the Nationals and own the worst record in all of baseball. The offensive numbers are beyond terrible. They are towards the bottom of the league in almost every conceivable offensive category:
HR- 27th
Runs- 29th
RBI- 29th
Average- 27th
OBP- 29th
SLG- 30th
wOBA- 30th
wRC+- 30th
fWAR- 29th
OPS- 30th
As for the pitching, they are better but still not great and certainly not good enough to mitigate their poor offense:
ERA- 17th
Runs- 15th
Earned runs- 12th
HR- 22nd
BB- 15th
K- 5th
And, those are just the surface numbers. This doesn’t touch on their horrible-ness with runners in scoring position. This doesn’t consider their lackadaisical play, the physical and mental mistakes, and the overall lifelessness and indifference this team appears to show on a day-in, day-out basis.
Yes, they were without Juan Soto for a few weeks. They’re now without Francisco Lindor for an indeterminate amount of time as well. But this roster should be able to out-perform short and even medium-term absences from one star player or another.
I get the feeling that if Lindor were playing, the conversation wouldn’t be much different right now.
There’s plenty of finger-pointing to go around, especially at both Carlos Mendoza and David Stearns, but there is also plenty of fault to go around, such as the roster that Mendoza was forced to deploy on the field, which isn’t his fault.
Perhaps it was a fool’s errand to completely rebuild both a team and a pitching staff in one off-season. The choice to move on from the old guard is not the wrong one per se, but to move on and expect to compete the following year is a lot of turnover in one offseason.
Maybe that is why this team does not look cohesive?
They had only a couple of months to come together as a team, and those months were interrupted by the World Baseball Classic. Maybe this should have been a rebuild year from the beginning, but the expectation was that they would compete this year, which makes this a tougher pill to swallow for the fanbase.
They never replaced Pete Alonso with an actual first baseman. They took Brett Baty, who was finally starting to feel comfortable as an everyday third baseman, and moved him out to play two positions which are completely foreign to him, one of which is first base. They signed Jorge Polanco, an oft-injured career middle infielder to play first base, that which they are clearly not cool with, and he’s hurt anyway and can’t play. They traded essentially a minimal package for Luis Robert Jr., and couldn’t keep him healthy or productive. And, for some reason, they thought Mark Vientos would figure this out, and of course, he hasn’t.
Among other failed experiments.
Maybe this is why great players in free agency get long-term contracts? Good idea or not for a team, that’s the reality.
Mendoza’s job has not been easy with a new coaching staff, but it’s not as if they were successful all-around last season either with the old coaches. Sure, their base running was better under the now-departed Antoan Richardson, but nothing else was generally well-coached under the 2025 Mets, either. Mendoza is not a great in-game manager, and it is his job to make sure this team is ready to play, so the sloppy play on the field does fall on his shoulders to an extent.
There is enough talent on this team where they should not be this bad, so they shoulder the bulk of the blame. These are highly-paid professional athletes with track records, and I sincerely doubt they’ve been babied through their careers with managers and coaches to be this successful. They need to perform, they need to be a lot better, and ultimately, they’ll be held accountable with their next contracts, during a roster crunch, or a combination of the two.
April is blessedly over, and they can turn a new page with the turning of the calendar, and while it might already be too late for this team to get back on track, they have a chance to turn the page, get their season back on the rails, and look forward to the next five or so months on the baseball calendar.
Around the League 🚩
The Phillies walked off the Giants in both games of a doubleheader
Both C Adley Rutschman and 2B Jeremiah Jackson hit a grand slam in the Orioles 10-3 win over the Astros
Astros LF Yordan Álvarez hit his twelfth home run of the year which ties him for the major league lead
The Reds placed LHP Brandon Williamson on the IL with shoulder fatigue (ESPN)
Brewers RHP Brandon Woodruff is undergoing further testing to see what caused his velocity dip in his last start (ESPN)
Not that it's wrong, but It's easier emotionally to say it's Stearns' fault or Mendoza's fault. At least for me, what hurts the most is discovering that one after another of our talented prospects are not turning out as we hoped: Vientos, Baty, Mauricio. Even Alvarez hasn't made good on the promise he showed. For that matter, Acuna has zero extra base hits on the season, Jett Williams is batting .223 in AAA, and Sproat has been mostly bad. It appears that all of these players were overhyped and we bought into it. Getting Myers for Sproat and Williams looks like a steal at this point with Peralta as gravy. Time will tell.
Reference to Peralta giving up three unearned runs, but then his line had him giving up one run.
Some of the changes were fine. Diaz apparently wanted to leave. Nimmo was most questionable. A major problem was that the replacements were often questionable. Injury-prone. Out of position. Plus, you needed a real replacement at 1B. And starting pitching issues only partially addressed.
The players are largely to blame, but a whole new coaching staff, new positions, and so on were going to be hard without careful leadership, too.
Anyway, that was a game they had to win. That they lost it shows it isn't just bad hitting.