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By Brian Joura
As sure as the day destroys the night and two follows one, if you write a column about the top 10 good things one day, a column on top 10 bad things will come next. And while there wasn’t much disagreement on the order of things with the good column, my guess is that people will object to the order presented here. And that’s okay. There was so much bad news that we can reasonably disagree on the order of importance. How much bad news was there? Enough that we’re going to have 11 items listed here!
So, here’s my take on the 10 11 worst things to happen to the 2023 Mets:
Tied for 10th. Pete Alonso’s second slump & Daniel Vogelbach’s start – In the first four years of his career, Alonso was extremely consistent of having one bad stretch of around 80 PA. And in 2023, from 4/22-5/15, he had 86 PA with a .606 OPS. But then from 5/30-7/20, Alonso had 140 PA with a .554 OPS. The Mets went 17-24 in this stretch. They fell below .500 and never reached that level again. During this stretch, Alonso was hit on the hand by a pitch and likely returned too soon, wanting to help the team. We can applaud his desire to play when he wasn’t 100% ready. But with the benefit of hindsight, we can say the club would have been better off if he missed another week and then played in some rehab games before returning.
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