Lucas Duda and the rest of the Mets lineup have not produced much offensive power this season.
Coming into the season it was expected that the New York Mets would be missing a few things and also be a bottom feeding team. Well, they aren’t bottom feeding but they are definitely missing a few things.
The main thing missing is power. There is no power on this team.
Ike Davis is shot. Okay maybe not…but he has been away from baseball for so long. He looked good in spring training and then when the season started and he was batting in front of Jason Bay. Davis wasn’t getting anything good to hit. His response, try to hit anything remotely close.
If he goes 1-for-5 in a game right now he actually would raise his average. I never thought Ike would be a .300 hitter, though last year he started looking like one, but .163? Wow.
It’s time for him to go to Buffalo (Triple-A) and figure things out again. His struggles may just be because he was out almost a year and the only way to come out o...
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