Preview of the MLB series: Mets Welcome Cubs to Citi Field

The New York Mets (24-14) Welcome the Chicago Cubs (22-16) At Queens for a battle of two teams first place. The Mets begin a home stand of six games, followed by six games in the northeast, followed by nine other home games.

With their victory on Wednesday, the Mets are back in their series winnings after they have stored or shared the previous three series they played, even though the team has been more or less competitive lately. With the exception of the loss on Tuesday evening against the Diamondbacks, the Mets had lost no game with three or more races since April 15 against the twins. And even though they are in the first place and were ten games over 500 years old, the Mets still feel like a team that has not yet completely left.

Part of it is that the line -up hit just enough to win games but was not yet a well -oiled machine. With his two home runs on Wednesday, it looks like Juan Soto is closer to getting his season on the right track when he was at any other time this year. Since the beginning of the National Series on April 25, Soto has reached a WRC+from 195 with an isolation of 0.313/.424/.646 with isolated slugging of 0.333, four home runs and more walks than strikes.

But outside of Soto and the still red Hot Pete Alonso, the crime of the Mets was at best inconsistent. Francisco Lindor continued and beaten well, he cooled down from his tear from mid -April. Brandon Dimo, Mark Viientos and the recently returned couple from Francisco Alvarez and Jeff McNeil showed all lightning of their previous successes, but could not consistently continue. When Tyrone Taylor, Luis Angel Acuña and Luis Torrens take some of the best bats in the line -up, you know that the rest of the team has problems.

After Jesse Winker lacks two months with a weird load, the METs are currently preparing some players who, like placeholders in Jose Azocar and Brett Baty, are currently preparing. Baty, who got hardly any triple-a repetitions due to a toe injury, is a mystery that seems to be crushed in spring training and Syracus, but cannot yet put it together for the Big League Club. The restriction of his season to a bank player seems to be a resignation of his lack to the future with the club. Ditto Azocar, who had a nice spring and is a useful piece, but not enough at the moment to justify a place on the squad. Personally, I would rather see how Jared Young left most of the left -handed hitter on bats in Winker’s place and replace a young outfield, maybe Drew Gilbert, Azocar to get a feeling for what he has in the tank.

The bullpen of the Mets, for a long time their strength this season, has stalled a little, mainly due to overuse and lack of off-day days. Without Thursday games in May and only a Monday game in June, the team will get more calm, which is urgently needed. With AJ Minter and Danny Young for the season, the Mets are currently rolling the cubes on Génesis Cabrera as their left -wing abbey, although the recently colored Colin Poche or Syracuses Anthony Gose could be options for this point in the coming days.

The Cubs started the year as one of the hottest teams in baseball and although they have cooled down a bit recently, they are still in first place in the National League Central and have achieved most of the runs throughout baseball so far. Much of her success comes from the former Mets Farmhand Pete Crow-Armstrong, which the Mets negotiated for half a season by Javier Báez in a year in which the team did not even sniff a playoff place. PCA meets nine Home -Runs and 12 stolen bases that are already good for 2.3 Bwar. Carson Kelly and Kyle Tucker also have impressive seasons, and the Cubs are a team .457, third best in the entire baseball and only eight points behind the Yankees for the best in the game.

From a metaphysical point of view, the new Pope Leo XIV seems to be a white SOX fan in poorer news for the Cubs.

Friday, May 9th: Clay Holmes against Jameson Taillon, 7:10 p.m. on Sny

Holmes (2024): 36.2 IP, 39 K, 13 BB, 0 hour, 2.95 ERA, 2.19 FIP, 74 era-

The start of the start for Holmes has so far been somewhat successful, since the right -handed man has recently entered into games and has found ways to adapt his repertoire so that it is more effective via several innings. His strikes reached the Marlins in a game in early April, but while his KS has dropped, his walks and his deserved runs have the way. At his last start against the cardinals, he gave up three deserved runs, but this number is slightly padded by a bad throw that led to a run. But overall, Holmes now looks more like a starter and hopefully can continue the success that his era has dropped one and a half runs since the beginning of April.

Taillon (2024): 39.2 IP, 31 K, 8 BB, 6 hours, 3.86 ERA, 4.10 FIP, 96 era-

After a very bad first start of the year, in which he gave up six deserving runs in four and third inning, Taillon was good. Taillon never has a strike jug and achieves results by getting in touch and familiar with his defense to get out of it. So far it works. He does nothing more than what he has done in the past – all of his prices are more or less at career house – but the team for which he participates achieves many runs and he has kept them in games.

Saturday, May 10th: Tylor Megill against TBD, 7:15 p.m. on Fox

Megill (2024): 36.0 IP, 45 K, 15 BB, 2 hours, 2.50 ERA, 2.81 FIP, 63 era-

As our Chris Mcshane said recently, Tylor Megill may be real this time. While his last two starts were the weakest of the season so far, there were no disasters, and overall he does all the things they hope, megill, he strikes people, he limits his walks and he induces basic balls. Megill was more effective in the season (remember his role in the combined no-hitter of the Mets in 2022?), But as Chris emphasized, he has been pretty good since last season.

Sunday, May 11th: Griffin Canning against Matthew Boyd, 12:05 p.m. on Roku

Canning (2024): 36.0 IP, 37 K, 15 BB, 3 hours, 2.50 ERA, 3.37 FIP, 63 era-

Every year in the Amazin ‘Avenue we make brave predictions to start the year, and mine this year was that Griffin Canning would hold on to rotation throughout the season. So far it looks like I should have used this prediction some real money. While he found that he essentially has a five and a starter, he has not given up no deserved run since April 11th. Canning will not overwhelm anyone, and sometimes it can be a bit frustrating how it is a nibbler, but the results are there.

Boyd (2024): 39.1 IP, 37 K, 13 BB, 4 hours, 2.75 ERA, 3.75 FIP, 69 era-

The Boyd Starter Starter has been in its first healthy season in 2020 and has looked as good as ever. While his era has tailored with every start, he does not yet have a “bad” start, with the next start against the Buzzsaw Dodgers closest, where he was marked for six races (only three) over six innerings. When it is healthy, Boyd has always been a perfectly cromulent MLB starter, and that’s exactly how it looks now.