81 GAME MARKER. ANALYSIS AT THE HALFWAY POINT It is the halfway point for Major League Baseball. The New York Mets, 9 games above .500 are currently 3 games back from 1st place in the National Leauge East. More importantly, they are half a game up in first place in the Wild Card Standings. Thus, if the playoffs began today, they would be in it. It is very important that they keep playing with the fire they showed all of June and continue to chase the Braves for safer entrance.
David Wright, who is batting well above .300, is on pace to pick up the most RBIs in the National League. Likely to be the Mets only rep at the All Star Game, side from pitcher Mike Pelfrey, Wright is on pace to smack 28 home runs and 130 RBIs! And how about Big Pelf? Mike is on pace to win 20 games! This could very well be our year, folks.
What else do we need? Wright batted over .400 in June, and while many say Reyes is the key to the club, I beg to differ. On my blame and hero board, Wright is responsible both for the most losses and the most wins. He has keyed emotional losses with strikeouts and highlighted big wins with RBIs. Jason Bay, who has been responsible for 3 losses and 2 wins, is clearly not hitting enough HRs. His average, though, is where we need it to be. He can't hit over the great wall of flushing like we want him to, okay. But he needs to continue to drive the ball and hit as well as Angel Pegan does with RISP. Pegan is hitting .390 with runners in scoring position.
As for pitching, Takahashi and Dickey have continued to show steem and prove critics wrong, sitting down batters left and Wright. Santana needs to up his game and Pelfrey needs to remain dominant. That's all, folks! Lets go Mets. 2010. For deeper analysis, evaluate the stats.
David Wright, who is batting well above .300, is on pace to pick up the most RBIs in the National League. Likely to be the Mets only rep at the All Star Game, side from pitcher Mike Pelfrey, Wright is on pace to smack 28 home runs and 130 RBIs! And how about Big Pelf? Mike is on pace to win 20 games! This could very well be our year, folks.
What else do we need? Wright batted over .400 in June, and while many say Reyes is the key to the club, I beg to differ. On my blame and hero board, Wright is responsible both for the most losses and the most wins. He has keyed emotional losses with strikeouts and highlighted big wins with RBIs. Jason Bay, who has been responsible for 3 losses and 2 wins, is clearly not hitting enough HRs. His average, though, is where we need it to be. He can't hit over the great wall of flushing like we want him to, okay. But he needs to continue to drive the ball and hit as well as Angel Pegan does with RISP. Pegan is hitting .390 with runners in scoring position.
As for pitching, Takahashi and Dickey have continued to show steem and prove critics wrong, sitting down batters left and Wright. Santana needs to up his game and Pelfrey needs to remain dominant. That's all, folks! Lets go Mets. 2010. For deeper analysis, evaluate the stats.
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