Well, if last week’s meter represented an improvement from the week before, this week’s meter is certainly a massive change from what we’ve been seeing lately. Despite having a .500 week overall against the NL East’s two weakest teams, the offense broke out this week in a big way. The Mets opened the Nationals series with a lopsided win and then had two run-scoring bonanzas on Friday and Saturday as well, which produces a nice looking meter, despite the win-loss record. Mark Vientos’ renaissance remains an encouraging development, but the bad news is that Pete Alonso is slumping and the Mets lost a newly-productive Francisco Alvarez to injury.

There are really only two bad things on this meter to discuss, which I alluded to above. We’ll get them out of the way early. Francisco Alvarez wen

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