MLB insider watched Mets being pitched ‘disrespectfully’ — and teams aren’t even hiding it
The MLB insider watched the Mets in person and noticed pitchers aren't even trying to be clever, just throwing fastballs the lineup can't hit.
There’s struggling, and then there’s what the Mets are suffering through right now. Eleven losses in a row. A lineup that can’t do damage against a fastball right down the middle.
And perhaps most damning of all — opposing pitchers aren’t even trying to be clever about it anymore. On Tuesday, MLB insider Buster Olney joined Dave Rothenberg and Rick DiPietro on their ESPN New York show, and what he had to say after watching the Mets take on the Dodgers in person should be concerning. “The thing that really jumped out to me in seeing them in person in LA was how disrespectfully they were being pitched,” Olney said, via YouTube .
“There’s that sense of... they’re throwing so many fastballs — the Dodgers were, then the Cubs — and it’s like, we’re going to throw you fastballs and you can’t hit it, and even if you did hit it, it’s not going anywhere. ” Olney didn’t stop at the eye test.
He reached out to an expert to get the hard numbers behind what he was seeing, and the data is brutal. The Mets are 30th out of 30 teams in OPS against fastballs with a . 642 mark.