How both the Mets & Yankees can stay hot over the summer
The key for both the New York Mets and New York Yankees offensive success throughout the summer and into October will come in form of players who part of why both teams won games but haven’t had major success at the big-league level in quite some time. DJ LeMahieu and Jeff McNeil at the start of the 2020’s for the Pinstripes and the Metropolitans were the table setters for the offense. Both won batting titles in a time in baseball where the glitz and glamour of the highest batting average is all but gone. Suddenly, so too was the production of LeMahieu and McNeil that made the Yankee and Met offense so dangerous. Everything about their at-bats didn’t feel the same as it did before. Part of that is rest of the league figuring out ways to get them out. The other part is the natural aging progression in baseball. LeMahieu is now 36. McNeil 33. And the last part is injuries. Each of the last two seasons each has missed major time with their own injuries. McNeil hasn’t played 150 plus...
