The Mets and the Marlins played their first of like 7 or 8 games this Spring (thats a lot against a team we are going to play 18 times over the regular season) yesterday, and the Mets took the first game by the score of 4-3. We have focused a lot of pitching here, so I want to start off with the bats, just to give them an equal representation on this website. Anyway, there were three Mets hitters who had two hits. Evans went 2-3 with 2 R and a BB. Hairston 2-3, R, 2B. Duda 2-3, RBI (and thats nice to see cause he has been struggling this season). Fmart had a chance to increase his high Spring Batting average, instead he got a walk. In short, lots of positives with the bats. The only negative was Castillo was 0-3 followed by Emaus being 0-2.
Chris Young had another good day, and thats great. He went 3.0 IP with 2 hits and one unearned run while walking 2 and striking one out. What is critical about his performance is he did not have his best stuff by far, yet he was still effective. That is really promising (I am overflowing with optimism about Young on the roster). Misch took a step back today allowing 2 runs, 1 earned over 2 innings with 5 hits. While that isn't terrible, when he is on the outside bubble of the rotation looking in, thats not going to help him. Oh, and Carrasco did well.
After 7 games now, what is becoming clear for this Mets team is that the options in competition positions are looking good. It doesn't look like we are deciding between the lesser of two evils. Which is refreshing and awesome. But I probably say that every Spring.
