The Mets stumbled in the final week of the regular season, missing the playoffs by playing .500 ball and finishing with the same record as the Reds, who held the tiebreaker and are therefore currently playing in the NL Wild Card series against the Dodgers in LA. The Mets began the week by taking two out of three from the Cubs, who had already clinched their playoff spot. But then—we’ve seen this movie before—they lost two out of three to the Marlins to fall just short of a playoff berth. What’s more, they were shutout in their final game and this meter reflects a rather ugly offensive finish to the 2025 season.
This meter tells a story that has played out for most of the season: positive grades for the top of the Mets’ lineup, but poor to putrid performances from nearly everybody else. Th