Since this post is two days late, it will be shorter than its last version and the one after the tomorrow's game will be longer. Basically the goal of these entries is to see how the Mets have been progressing through the season, thus on Monday, that entry will be more comparative than this entry. There are not many stats to highlight in this one, but here it goes:
Through the Mets first 8 games, the Mets have scored 44 runs.
Mets opponents have scored 31 runs.
First off, this shows the impact of that 13-0 game the Mets played, because now thats the difference in the stats. While its hard to infer stats with such an influencer like that game, it indicates that overall, the Mets offense has been barely matching their opponents, on average. This can been seen mainly through the 3 homers the Mets have had in their first 8 games (2 of them actually coming in that 13-0 romp, further showing the slowing of the Mets offense recently).
On average, the Mets have scored 5.5 runs a game, and their opponents have scored on average 3.87 runs a game.
The other slightly strange stat from the first 8 games the Mets have only stolen 3 bases. This was changed in the first game of the Brewer series where the Mets stole 3 bases in that game. Anyway, thru the first 8 games, the Mets have averaged .375 stolen bases a game, which is way down from last year. A no-brainer prediction says that this starts to get closer to last year as the season goes on.
