Your 33.3% Report Card

One-third of the Mets' 2025 season is in the books. It's as good a time as any to stop, breathe, reflect, and take stock of where we are.

For example, to know that we are officially 33% of the way through this slog is to fallibly project that Juan Soto’s 1.6 WAR thus far tracks to 4.8 over the course of the season. That number would be the lowest since his rookie year, and the lowest per-game-played of his career. Huh.

It's also the second-highest in the NYM lineup, a hair behind the April power/May showers Pete Alonso. Huh again. More time is needed for Soto to really get into his groove, I guess, but a pro-rated $17 million for output to-date hasn’t drawn big smiles.  

As it was with the first check-up, the Mets' starters -- even minus Manaea and Montas, amazingly -- continue to be Steady Eddies. The pen is mostly airtight. 

The hitting... yeow. Of late, every run seems to be a rare treasure, something our guys labor to scratch across. Whither the days of Vientos, McNeil, Nimmo, and Alvarez smashing balls out to complement Lindor and Alonso? 

And the team hasn’t been... clutch. Now, that’s a term that some people equate to Sasquatch or the non-coaster Loch Ness Monster. Hard to know if the Mets are just players who tighten up in big spots these days, but that's additionally hard to believe after the Fall of ’24. 

We just need some collective cosmic change in Citi to make this analogy work:

Mets are to RISP
as
Talking Heads are to RISD

Nope, that doesn’t work. Not at all. 

Which brings us to our own 33.3% performance eval here at MLC.

The Stats

Posts since Re-launch March 27: 31
Days since Re-launch: March 27: 61
Days per Post: 2

Games Played: 54
Games Per Post: 1.74

Posts per MLC Staffer
Whitney: 59
Marls 2:
Unnamed Other Blogger: 0

All in all, I'd say the MLC output of the past 2 months has been 4/5 Exceeds Expectations.

The cleverness is at times not quite there, but the silliness is. Our attention to the team and its games is very high, and our understanding of what's going well and less so feels on the mark. 

So far it hasn't been a reboot as great as the Jack Ryan series from a couple of years ago, but it's been better than the stab at Magnum, P.I. Maybe mostly like The Kids in the Hall. Goofy, weird, not quite there, not quite all there.

Mainly people miss Rob and the juxtaposition of two teams and fan bases in vastly different places. And the expected coming-out party for Marls has been endless waiting. 

On we go to the middle bits. 

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