What, Us Worry?

These Mets are built for whatever might come their way..

It’s baseball season, friends. All the excitement. All the hope. All the delusion. It’s all wonderful. And not even a Jacob deGrom injury scare can take the wind out of these sails.

Luckily for the Mets, they’re prepared for whatever might come their way in that department. Adding Max Scherzer has never felt like a better idea, to be honest.

If Jake does have to miss time with what’s been initially described by Mets skipper Buck Showalter as tightness in the back of his right shoulder, this group can shoulder the brunt of that loss.

Max slides up a spot, Chris Bassitt gets a magnified opportunity to show New York what made him an All-Star in Oakland. Carlos Carrasco (4 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 3 K, BB on Wednesday vs. HOU) and Taijuan Walker (3.2 IP, 0 ER, 3 H, 2 K on Thursday vs. WSH) are the meat and potato guys, and Tylor Megill (6.2 IP, 0 ER (2 R), 5 H, 7 K, 5 BB this spring) brings up the rear.

Not quite the plan, but good enough for now.

Then, of course, you have the internal competition aspect. Whether that applies to the starting five pushing each other along, the six-thru gang trying to crack the rotation, the relief corps keeping themselves sharp, etc, it’s always a good thing.

Mets reliever Trevor May touched on that process and the exciting results it can produce on The Chris Rose Rotation (Jomboy Media) this week.

“I hope there is [competition],” May said with regard to the dynamic of having deGrom and Scherzer in the same rotation. “Every single team I've been on when I was a starter too and even coming up through the minors and stuff. When we had a bunch of prospects on the team. We'd all try to one up each other and that made us really good.”

And that’s kinda the story across the board. A reinforced lineup with oodles of depth behind them, and these guys are all upper-crust players. As discussed earlier this week, it’s only spring training. But this roster’s potential has been fully evident.

Francisco Lindor (.400/.448/1.408, 4 HR, 29 PA), Dom Smith (.400/.520/1.270, 25 PA), and Eduardo Escobar (.333/.408/.667, 22 PA) are leading the way.

J.D. Davis (.294/.478/.353, 23 PA) and Luis Guillorme (.294/.429/.529, 21 PA) have found early grooves, which bodes very well for the bench.

Jeff McNeil (.273/.346/.409, 26 PA) looks eons more comfortable in the box than he has in recent years. Huge development.

Starling Marte has been impressive since returning to the Mets’ lineup. Pete Alonso crushed his first homer of the spring on Wednesday, looking very Polar Bear in the process. All terrific things.

Even David Wright — back in Port St. Lucie this week — seems to be envious of the talent assembled in Flushing this season (video via SNY).

We’ve heard the “special group” lines many times before. This feels different. This feels real. Well, at least more real than we’re used to.

Hope springs eternal, no? LFGM.

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