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By Brian Joura
After making the playoffs in back-to-back seasons, the Mets haven’t had much sustained success. Shoot, if we’re being honest, they haven’t had much success at all. This year marks the fifth time in the last seven seasons that the club finished under .500 for the campaign. And this season started with such high hopes. Oh well. But let’s look at what went right for the club. There were some nice years by the team’s top two power hitters turned in. But this was expected from them and they didn’t exceed expectations, so they don’t make the list.
So, here are the top 10 good things for the Mets in 2023:
10. The performance of Jose Butto – Coming into the season, the top two depth starters were considered to be David Peterson and Tylor Megill. But those two performed miserably for the majority of the year, certainly early on when the club fell out of the playoff race. But Butto came on to make six starts, with four of those being solid or better. It doesn’t sound like much – and, really, it’s not – but we have a guy who was an afterthought coming into the season who is now a bullpen piece or depth starter going forward. One of the complaints was that the system hadn’t delivered much pitching and Butto seems ready to claim some type of role. Hey, it’s something.
9. The Brooks Raley trade – The Mets dealt Keyshawn Askew, a player who had earned some solid press for his 2022 season, for Raley, an older pitcher without a ton of success in his MLB career.
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