Mets Leap Into Top Three In Pre-Opening Day Power Rankings After Aggressive Offseason
Aggressive offseason moves, headlined by a new ace and an overhauled lineup, propel the New York Mets into baseball's elite tier. Can they put it all together?
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So he only hit it four times before the All-Star break, and again, now we're three weeks into February, and he's already at ninety-seven.
Yeah.
That's a, that's a great look.
that's, nice to see.
And obviously, like you mentioned, we just started, so this early on you're getting up that, that high in VLO.
He could go even higher and, like you said, we, we haven't We've barely seen him get up to ninety-seven.
Like, like last year, we barely saw him get up to ninety-seven.
It's just disgusting.
V-VLO kills.
I want the ninety-seven.
I mean, can you imagine like seeing ninety-seven and then like one pitch later it's like an eighty-five splitter that just falls off the table?
Like come on.
A ghost fork.
It's just disgusting.
Or yeah, it's technically a fork ball, right?
Oh.
Yeah.
They do, they do very similar things, I will say.
Yeah.
Still, either way, like you're seeing a ball at the same release point, the same height, and it's ten miles an hour slower, and it falls to your knees and you're just done.
Yeah, just done.
That's disgusting.
That's just unfair.
GGs.
And so Kodey Senga, 2023, his rookie year, he was awesome.
He was an All-Star.
He was top ten in Cy Young voting.
He was second in Rookie of the Year voting.
I mean, obviously wins-loss team stat, but twelve and seven, a WAR of four and a half, a hundred and sixty-six point one innings pitched, two hundred and two strikeouts, a walks, hits per innings pitched of one point two two.
strikeouts per nine innings, ten point nine.
A strikeout to walk rate of two point six.
I mean, Senga in his rookie year was a force.
I got my years mixed up.
2024 was his injury-riddled year.
He missed a lot of time.
a WAR of only point one.
He started in one game, pitched just five innings.
And then in 2025, last season, seven and six, two point one WAR, a hundred and thirteen point one innings pitched, a hundred and nine strikeouts, a WHIP of one point three one five.
So 2025, still a little bit of injuries.
Again, a hundred and thirteen innings pitched is not a super high number, but
