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The list of Mets problems is CVS-receipt long. There is four-fifths of a rotation that cannot be trusted; a correspondingly tired bullpen; problems up and down a lineup that have been expected to go away and have not gone away.

There are bigger issues than Brandon Nimmo’s bat, but Brandon Nimmo’s bat has not helped recently.

In a Mets lineup that has flailed, no one has had bigger issues making contact than Nimmo. In 23 games since July 12, Nimmo has struck out 34 times — his 33.3 percent rate the seventh highest in baseball in the span entering Monday — during a kind of funk that Nimmo has dealt wit

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