The previously slumping former batting champion Jeff McNeil is downright hot now, which gives the Mets a chance to have about the deepest lineup in baseball. One through nine, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza can write a bona fide threat into every spot in the order, at least on days when Jose Iglesias is playing and not singing.
This differentiates them from the Yankees, who as well-known truth-teller Luis Severino memorably pointed out in some classic trash talking to his former Yankees teammates that they currently have “only two good hitters.”
(Aside: I got a rare chance to edit rather than write, and I pointed out to the great sport Severino that while he was right about the other seven in the Yankees’ order, it’s fair to call Aaron Judge and Juan Soto “all-time great” and not just “good.” He agreed. “Right, they’re great,” Sevy conceded to me.)
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