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By Brian Joura

There’s an old saying that even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. If you’ve never heard that one before, it means that you can be incompetent and sometimes be right just by chance. If only that idiom applied to the Mets. With trades and such, they’ve had to promote a bunch of Quad-A types and play them since the trade deadline. You’d think that one of them would put up a few good PAs just by luck. But you’d be wrong. Here’s what those players have done in August:

Danny Mendick – 16 PA, .688 OPS
DJ Stewart – 16 PA, .683 OPS
Abraham Almonte – 7 PA, .619 OPS
Rafael Ortega – 27 PA, .499 OPS
Jonathan Arauz – 14 PA, .368 OPS
Mark Vientos – 31 PA, .329 OPS

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