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Mere hours after last week’s position player meter was published, the Metsfired hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting coach Tom Slater. Hugh Quattlebaum was named the new hitting coach and Kevin Howard was named the new assistant hitting coach. At the time of Davis’ firing, despite the offense having experienced a bit of a reawakening the weekend before, the team was 29th in baseball in runs scored. Since Quattlebaum took over, the Mets have scored 25 runs over six games (4.17 runs per game), which is not outstanding, but puts them more in the middle of the pack rather than at the bottom of the league. Given the way the pitching staff has performed in the early going, a merely average offense is enough to win the Mets a lot of games. Overall this week (which includes one game in the Chili Davis era and six games in the Hugh Quattlebaum era), the Mets went 5-2 with the five wins coming in succession in a still-active winning streak. Over
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Let’s guess the 2021 Mets’ record!
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In just a few hours, the Mets kick off the 2021 season. Before a single pitch is thrown or ball hit, our staff will do their best to guess what the Mets’ record will be. Put your own guesses in the comments!
Linda Surovich: 87-75
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Michael Drago: 88-74. The pitching staff will have its ups and downs, but the offense will be strong enough to lead the Mets to wild card contention, and a healthy rotation of deGrom/Syndergaard/Stroman/Carrasco would then be enough to make them legitimate contenders in the postseason.