Juan Soto's return helps, but Mets must save themselves if they hope to turn season around
The Mets fell for the 12th straight game on Tuesday, but if they want to end the streak and turn around their season, they'll need to rely on the players currently on the roster and not just the return of Juan Soto.
No one is coming to save the Mets . Rosters cannot be overhauled in April. Yes, Juan Soto is returning from the injured list Wednesday.
And yes, at times during their 12-game streak, this Mets offense looked a mere Juan Soto shy of normalcy. But that time was a few series ago, when at least some things were going right. After a huge home run from Francisco Lindor and a would-be Nolan McLean no-hitter evaporated into a 12th straight loss Tuesday , it is safe to say nothing is going right for the Mets anymore.
“It sucks,” Carlos Mendoza said. No one will ever know how many times out of 10 this roster David Stearns assembled for Mendoza would start this badly. It is not hard to imagine a universe in which Bo Bichette started hot or Jorge Polanco slid in seamlessly or Brett Baty translated a promising spring into a big April or the return of Kodai Senga ’s velocity led to the reemergence of an ace...
and so on. But none of that happened in this universe, which has thus far proven to be home to several worst-case scenarios at once. For example: In this universe, Devin Williams looks vulnerable to New York again, not inoculated against it.