In April, the Mets will play 19 games vs the NL East. In May, the Mets will play 10 games against the East. In June 2008, the Mets will play 0 games against the NL East. Here is a breakdown of the games the Mets play in June 2008:
LAD (1)
SF (3)
SD (4)
ARI (3)
COL (3)
STL (1)
TEX (3)
LAA (3)
SEA (3)
NYY (3)
The Mets play 27 games in June, 13 Home, 14 Away. Out of these 27 games, 20 of them will be against teams that were above .500 last year. 12 of these games will be against teams that made the playoffs last year. When they play LAA, they will have played 6 of last years 8 playoff teams.
Although, one can argue when they play San Diego this month, they will play 7 of 9 teams that made the playoffs last year because of the one game wild card playoff last year. Either way, the Mets will not be playing the Red Sox or the Indians this year during the regular season, so they will not complete the cycle of playing all the Playoff teams thisyear.
On paper this looks like a hard month for the Mets in terms of playing teams that by lasts years standards were very good. As I have said before in the previous installments of this series, I highly doubt that will be the issue. It is June, there is not a lot of pressure in the games yet, and the only games that have pressure no matter what time of year are the games against division teams. No division teams this month, so all they have to do is go out and win.
