☀️ Good Morning:
A strange off day on Sunday gave us time to take a deep breath after a frustrating first series of the season, while also giving some fans extra space to panic.
As the Yankees break records and invent new ways to hit home runs (quite literally), the Mets have hit a lone one.
To use a stat to sum up the first weekend as a New York baseball fan, the Bombers have more homers (15) than the Amazins have hits (12).
This newsletter is not about cross-town comparisons, but it’s impossible to ignore how Mets fans have been forced to consume baseball over the past several days.
Juan Soto did his part in Houston, but it wasn’t enough to wake up a team that has seemed to left their skinny bats in Florida with the equipment truck.
At the end of the day, it’s three games. We can touch on the poor hitting, but the biggest takeaways from the weekend were really on the pitching side of the ledger.
And for anyone losing sleep over a slow start, take a look at who is sitting in last place in the National League East.
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🔹 Built on pitching?
This pitching staff is supposed to be the backdrop of an offensive juggernaut. At least that’s how we’ve been handicapping the roster heading into this 2025 season. If the rotation offers quality starts and if the bullpen does its thing, the lineups filled out by Carlos Mendoza will win him a lot of games.
We saw the opposite of that this weekend. The pitching staff felt like a strength, while the offense was MIA (hopefully they can find themselves in MIA).
The Dodgers are 5–0, looking as dominant as expected. Their team ERA is a full run higher than the Mets’! Los Angeles hasn’t rolled off to one of their best starts in franchise history because of elite starting pitching — Roki Sasaki recorded five outs on Saturday, Blake Snell looked so-so in his debut — they have counted on their offense to score a bunch of runs.
The Mets have allowed five earned runs and somehow lost two of the first three games.
Small sample size insanity: Again… Again… it’s three games. The offense could breakout for 37 runs over the next three and none of this matters. What’s important is the bigger question mark entering the season looked solid, as we will discuss next.
🔹 A dominant bullpen
An early trend we can only hope holds over time is the success of the bullpen, marked by Max Kranick’s wasted heroics on Saturday.
What a debut: Making his first major-league appearance in over 1,050 days, Kranick was greeted with a bases-loaded, one-out jam in a one-run game, and he didn’t flinch, needing only five pitches to induce a pop out and ground out to keep his team in the contest.
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