Why Mets are ‘very confident’ they will persevere from this disastrous start: ‘Part of our story’

CHICAGO — David Peterson’s perspective on the Mets ’ disastrous start to this season comes with six years of ups and downs in this uniform. Peterson, the Mets’ longest-tenured player, has been through it all within this organization. The highs of New York’s remarkable playoff run in 2024 and their 101-win regular season in 2022.

The lows of a fourth-place finish in 2023 along with last year’s devastating collapse in the second half. With those experiences in mind, Peterson sees the Mets’ ongoing losing streak to begin this season as an opportunity for this club — a group full of new faces still learning to jell — to take a long and hard look in the mirror. “We can either look at it as ‘poor us,’” Peterson told NJ.

com, “or take this as a test of what kind of team are we going to be? Are we going to stand up to this adversity and push forward? Or give in to it.

” Losses and uninspiring performances continue to pile up for the Mets, but Peterson and those within New York’s clubhouse are insisting that this team has all the right attributes to withstand this adversity, no matter how disappointing these first 20 games of the season have been. “I’ve seen a lot of good characteristics from this group and the new guys we brought in,” Peterson said. “It’s something I’m very optimistic about and very confident that we will show who we truly are by the end of it.