The Mets Have Hit ROCK BOTTOM...

The New York Mets have hit rock bottom. The Mets are on a six-game losing streak and just got swept in a four-game series against a team almost every Met fan hates. Fans are up in arms, not only questioning if the team will make the playoffs, but if they can even finish at the 500 mark. It has been really, really rough, so stay tuned only here on Mets Digest to hear all the details. I'm your host today, Mike Duda, and before we get into this abysmal team with an abysmal excuse for a front office, we've got to talk about some subscribers, and that being the fact that 62.1% of you that watch these videos aren't one. So please do me a favor, do us a favor here on Mets Digest, and hit that free subscribe button. That way we can bring content to you about the amazing. So without further ado, let's go ahead and dive right in because they are not very amazing of late. Another six-game losing streak. We will get into that in just a second because is this even really rock bottom? I've said it time and time again. I have videos up on this channel titled, This is Rock Bottom. The Mets have hit rock bottom. Is this even rock bottom? Because watch, somehow, someway, with just 15 games left to go, the Mets will go on some form of a run and then hit another rock bottom and probably miss the playoffs. And with 15 to go, I'm not even that confident that they're going to finish 500. So why? Well, it's because of this, another six-game losing streak. Like I've said, we've already had two separate occasions where the Mets have had a seven-game losing streak, which they're trying to avoid tonight. I'm going to the games, so let's hope, maybe. But I think what's worse about it is every Met fan despises the city of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Phillies, and we just lost four consecutive games, got swept in a four-game set in embarrassing fashion, I might add, over there in Philly. Terrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible. It's embarrassing. I mean, it is tough to go out there and say, yes, I'm an avid supporter of the New York Mets right now. That is how bad of a funk that they are in. We've already had two separate occasions where they've lost four out of 17 games or worse, and it just continues another really rough stretch here. As you can see, swept by the Phillies. Let's hear from the experts. What do they have to say about just how bad this New York Met team has been? We're going to start off with Matt Sullivan of Yahoo Sports. He says the New York Mets, after their three-game sweep over the Philadelphia Phillies at Citi Field, by the way, they were just four games out of the Phillies for the National League East by then. We'll take a look at the standings to end today's video. We're closing in on the Phillies and the National League East, like I just said, four games out. But, after faltering and losing the ground made up, the Mets traveled to Philadelphia for a four-game series. It went about as poorly as possible as the Mets were swept out of Philadelphia, losing all four games in various fashions. The last game was a brutal one, as they blew a four-run lead, putting the Mets down 11 games in the East, and in jeopardy of missing the postseason entirely. And to add on to this, quote, my personal narrative, I don't even think that they're going to finish 500th. They might be an 81-81 team, which is pathetic, because as we'll hear in just a little bit, they are a $340 million team. So what does this skip have to say? Let's hear from Carlos Mendoza. Well, according to Anthony Tacoma, he said, quote, I'm responsible. I'm the manager. It's my job to get these guys going, and I will. So let's turn it back to Sullivan, because he actually completely disagrees with what Mendy said here, and doesn't think that Mendoza is responsible. He says Mendoza is shouldering the responsibility from the Philly series. While he did have questionable decisions regarding the bullpen at times, the players on the field need to perform to expectations. And for once, I actually partially agree. Yes, he took out David Peterson last night at just 86 pitches, after going five innings, seven hits, three earned runs, a walk and a strikeout. Not a great night, but not bad enough that you should plunk him after 86 pitches. He ended up going to Reed Garrett, who has been really poor in just his second time out since coming back from injury. He only pitched two-thirds of an inning and gave up three earned runs. He continues to go to Ryan Helsley. He starts Cedric Mullins, et cetera, et cetera. The list continues to go on with questionable moves. But that's kind of been the theme all year, and at this point, as we're going to hear from the stats in just a little bit, as we're going to see from the stats, the players need to start stepping up. The players need to do better, as I think that there is a bigger problem here, and that is the man on the left of your screen right now in David Stearns. It all starts at the top. You're not going to fire the owner. You can't get rid of Steve Coleman unless he wants to get rid of himself from this team. Unless he wants to just back away and say, I'm going to sell the team. So you've got to start from the top, and for me, especially if they don't make the playoffs, and even more especially if they don't make it to the 500 mark, you've got to start firing people left and right. David Stearns' trade deadline has looked really, really bad. Gregory Soto's been okay. Tyler Rodgers has been pretty iffy, in my opinion. He's good if he gets a clean inning to work with, but he gives up too many hits, and therefore, when he comes in with a tough situation with runners on base, those runners are going to end up soaring. And the two guys on your top, I mean, they have just been abysmal. How about Cedric Mullins, who is hitting 183 in a New York Met uniform with a 67 OPS plus. That is 33 points below league average, when overall, throughout his career, he is a six OPS plus point above average player. So Mullins, an absolute disaster, and I'd argue that Ryan Helsley has been even worse. Try an 11.08 ERA. We got this guy at the trade deadline. The first time he pitched was in early August. I believe it was actually August 1st. His war is a negative 1.4. I don't even know how this happens. That is how bad Ryan Helsley has been. To go back to Mullins, we have had zero production whatsoever from our catching staff as well. I'll get into that with a video coming out in a little bit later on this weekend. And it's been a brutal, brutal outing and outings for Ryan Helsley. The starting rotation has also been abysmal, as you can tell. Here are the highest ERAs in all of Major League Baseball through the month of September. And there are our Amazons sitting in second. Look at the company, the Minnesota Twins, who basically sold their entire roster at the trade deadline. The Colorado Rockies, the Miami Marlins, these teams that are not good and they don't have good pitching. And where are the Mets? Right at the top with them, or dare I say, right at the bottom. In fact, try a 7.16 ERA in the month of September from non-rookie pitchers, from non-rookie starting pitchers. Five and a third, five and a third this month out of a non-rookie is the longest that a veteran, keep in mind, a veteran, a veteran pitcher for the New York Mets that is a starter has gone in a game. And that was David Peterson. We've only seen five or more innings on three separate occasions, another two that ended in the fourth and one where Shamanaya only went three and two thirds innings. It is really, really bad. So I'm understanding the point that Sullivan made. So let's turn it back to him to see what else he has to say. He says, offensively, because we haven't even talked really the offense besides Cedric Mullins, the Mets scored four runs in the first inning on five hits to begin the fourth game of the Phillies series. That was the six to four loss, the most recent loss, but they were completely shut down. Not getting another base runner the rest of the game. In fact, the AP recapping the game, a gamer was titled Lizardo, that being Jesus Lizardo, retires 22 straight after a rough start as Phillies sweep Mets and I National League East title. Johan Duran, he grabbed the last three outs for the Phillies. They're just not clicking as a team. And that's exactly what Sullivan is going to say. In the prior two games, Mets pitching gave up a combined 20 runs in 9-3 and 11-3 losses. The series opener saw Nolan McLean and the bullpen pitch very well, allowing just one run. But the offense went stagnant as they got shut out for the first time since July 30th. Over the last 30 days, that being until that July 30th, give or take, the Mets offense has had an 848 OPS, the best in the major leagues. Their offense has been incredible. Their pitching has been pathetic, as meanwhile, that pitching staff has a 525 ERA in the same time frame. This is the sign of a team that's just not going to be successful. You can't hit and pitch at the same time. They did that really early in the year in April and May, but that's irrelevant now. We are in the month of September. We need to make the playoffs, and it's a question if we even will. And that 525 ERA has contributed to the Mets' struggles in the second half of the season. So, let's wrap it up with Sullivan. What are his overall closing thoughts? Well, Mendoza can take on all of the blame, but the players on the field, the Mets' $340 million team, we heard that stat earlier, they need to perform a lot better than they did against the Phillies. The season isn't over yet, and the Mets can bounce back and make a postseason run, but if the Mets let this sweep eat them up, it could spell the end of their 2025 season before October begins. So, with that, let's take a look at the standings here, or where we're at. Here is where we're at, I should say. The Philadelphia Phillies, they're 27 games above .500. We're 11 back with 15 games to go. No way we win the division. That is not mathematically impossible, but in all of reality, that is completely impossible. Now, on this picture, in this picture, I did not include the Arizona Diamondbacks and St. Louis Cardinals because they're both below .500. So here is the race. We are one and a half up on both the Cincinnati Reds and the San Francisco Giants entering play tonight. We do have the tiebreaker over the Giants. We do not have the tiebreaker over the Reds. For those of you that don't know, there is a rule now in the MLB where the game won 63, meaning if two teams were tied, they would play one game to see who gets in and who doesn't. That's no longer a thing. It now goes to tiebreakers. So the Mets do not have the breaker over the Reds because they lost two out of three in the most recent series and they lost another two out of three when the Reds came to Citi Field earlier this year to start the second half and the Giants, we have the tiebreaker over them. So those are two important notes to keep in mind as look, I know I'm saying that they won't make the playoffs right now. I am really, really upset with this team. I don't think this team is doing well whatsoever. I mean, it's pretty obvious that they're doing horribly, but of course, I'm a Met fan. I want them to make the playoffs. I just don't see it happening. So you got to look at the positives. You got to look at the, hey, how can we get in? And that is how we can get in. We have to be better than the Reds. We can be equally as good with the Giants because we have the tiebreaker over them. So that is the standings. And here's the upcoming schedule. This is why I'm a little bit iffy. The Texas Rangers right now are fighting hard to get into the American League wildcard. The San Diego Padres are a playoff team. As you can tell from this statistic, they got four games on us in the wildcard. The Washington Nationals, although they're not a good team, the Mets have struggled against them and the Marlins, who they close out the season with. And then the Chicago Cubs is sandwiched in between the Nationals and the Marlins, one of also the best teams that baseball has to offer, seven and a half up on the Reds over there in the wildcard, or rather up on the Mets. So really, really tough upcoming schedule overall. This is a big homestand. The Mets have a three game set against Texas, three against the Padres, three against the Nationals, nine more home games. The Mets have been a very, very good team at home at Citi Field. So hopefully tonight they can start something up, but it's going to be a tall task as, yes, we do have our three young guys, so do expect starters to go more than five or six innings in Jonah Tong, Brandon Sprott, and Nolan McLean. But we have to go up against Met legend Jacob deGrom tonight. It's a big part of the reason why I'm going to the game. So let's hope that I'm pleased and that Met fans are pleased and we can make some form of a comeback coming back. But I don't know. Again, feels like rock bottom. So go down there in the comments section. Let me know what you think. Do you agree? Do you think the Mets are even going to make the playoffs? Do you think that we're going to be a 500 team? Give me all your thoughts. Give me all your opinions down below. Unfortunately, that's all the time I have for you in today's video. As always, let's go Mets. I mean, I'm going tonight. Hopefully they can win. Hopefully they can pull something off against a former ace and one of my personal favorite players in Jacob deGrom. So we'll see. 15 games to go. Stay tuned on. Only here on Mets Digest, I might say. That way you can keep up with the team and all the important notes and trends. Again, video coming later this weekend on how bad the catching situation has been. But for now, let's hope that the Mets can win some ball games. Thank you so much, as always, for watching. And let's go Mets.