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By Brian Joura
As the Mets sit with a 70-80 record, when expectations were for the team to win 90+ games this year, it’s easy to imagine that many more things went wrong than what went right with the club this season. It’s too painful – and too lengthy – to list all of the ways the wheels fell off here in 2023. So, let’s just hit the lowlights. There were injuries to the starting rotation, a dreadful bullpen construction, a bunch of veteran hitters falling short of what was expected of them and a couple of rookies who failed to prove they belonged on the team.
All of that leaves us looking for sliver linings. And something more substantial than Phil Bickford has had six scoreless appearances in his last seven outings. Fortunately, the Mets have two things to potentially hang their hat on, one a guy coming on out of seemingly nowhere and the other a guy that was undervalued by far too many people, both inside and outside of the organization. The former is DJ Stewart and the latter is Ronny Mauricio.
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