The New York Mets
will begin their season tonight against the defending champion Kansas City
Royals in Kansas City, Missouri. The game
will be at 835PM on ESPN and it will be the same two teams that ended the
season last season as they were in the World Series but it ended in New
York. Matt Harvey will get the start for
the Mets.
I am expecting
the Mets to do big things again this year.
I do think that the Washington Nationals will probably be better and are
a dangerous team but the Mets just have too much pitching. They have an embarrassment of riches with the
pitching. Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah
Syndergaard, Steven Matz and Bartolo Colon and then Zach Wheeler will be back
in June or July. That is impressive,
best rotation in baseball in my mind without a doubt and they are all young too
other then Colon who will move to the pen once Wheeler returns. The Mets offense should be better this year
as well with Yoenis Cespedes there for a whole year, I think Neil Walker and
Asdrubal Cabrera were nice pickups and Wilmer Flores should be a good
backup.
I don't think the
Mets offense has to be that good for them to win since the pitching is so good
but they should be good enough to win most games. The bullpen is probably the one weakness but
Antonio Bastardo and Jerry Blevins should help.
They have a budding star in closer Jeurys Familia and I don't expect him
to regress this season.
I would expect
the Mets to win their division and at least get back to the NLCS if not
further. I am predicting the division
and wild cards at this point though and then at the end of the season I will
make my postseason picks. I am taking
the Mets in the NL East, Chicago Cubs in the NL Central and San Francisco
Giants in the NL West. My wild card
picks are the Washington Nationals and Arizona Diamondbacks.
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