While if the playoffs started today, the Mets would be on the outside, they have the eighth-best record in the National League while the top seven make the playoffs. That would have to meet anyone's definition of competing for a playoff spot.
We start with a rotation that's been solid on quality, if lacking in quantity. Then we follow up with a pen that's been both better and deeper than expected. And we finish up with an offense that's somehow been productive with very few players actually being good.
In that opening stretch of play, the Mets' first seven games of the season, although other teams played more, the team was last with a .536 OPS and last with a 62 wRC+ among all 30 teams in MLB.
But since the Mets broke out with six runs against the Reds on April, they've scored five runs or more in eight of their last 11 tilts. It's like a switch has been thrown and the bats have magically come to life.
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