The New York Mets are one of the best teams in Major League Baseball but have fallen on hard times lately, going 5-14 over their last 19 games.
The good news is the Mets still sit with one of the best records in the MLB at 50-38.
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New York is going to have to make a handful of moves by the end-of-the-month trade deadline if the team wants to compete in the World Series.
One decision the Mets will have to make is what to do at third base, and Noah Wright from Fansided thinks Brett Baty could be in danger of losing his roster spot soon.
“But like with most of the Mets’ roster, Baty didn’t have a good month of June and is off to a poor start in July. His last 92 trips to the dish have yielded a .188/.253/.294 triple-slash. He has only hit a pair of home runs, as his ISO has fallen to just .106. The only positives for Baty are his walk rate and K%. He’s improved both to 8.4% and 23.2%, respectively,” Wright wrote. “Baty’s defense has at least been solid. He still has +3 defensive runs saved and +3 outs above average in just 322 innings at the hot corner. For reference, Baty had -9 DRS and -3 OAA in nearly 1300 innings at third base during his first three years in the Major Leagues. Despite playing second base for the first time in the Major Leagues this season, Baty has zero DRS and OAA at the keystone across 170 innings.”
Baty was selected by the Mets 12th overall in 2019 and hasn’t lived up to the hype just yet.
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The 25-year-old slugger might have to head back down to the minors this summer and work on his game a little more before he’s ready to make a run with the Mets for the playoffs.
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