The first half of the season is in the books
for a Mets team that is frankly pretty glad to
see it go. I'm LV dot com. Mets
beat reporter Anthony Decoma here to break things down for
you on this edition of the Beef Report. Despite
some late momentum in the first half of the season
, the Mets enter the break having lost their final
two games to the Padres, a fellow underperforming national
league team and a potential rival down the stretch for
the Mets. They want to make a run at
a wild card. The Mets entered the break with
a 42 and 48 record a season high 18.5 games
back of the Braves and seven back of wild card
position. There's plenty of time for the Mets still
to make a run, but they're going to need
to show a lot more consistency in the second half
of the season to make that happen. Things won't
be easy right out of the gate. The schedule
resumes Friday with difficult series against the Dodgers in city
field. The all star break brought another jewel event
to the forefront of the baseball world the draft and
while the Mets did not select until 32nd overall,
in part because of the penalties they had to pay
for exceeding major league baseball's C BT threshold last year
, they still managed to nab who mob pipeline had
ranked the 12th ranked player in the entire draft.
That shortstop Colin Ha a power hitter who attended the
same Georgia high school as Jeff Franco and Matt.
Later on day one, the Mets selected University of
Florida right hander Brandon Scrote, who may have picked
it but failed to sign last year. Those two
instantly become premium prospects in the Mets farming system.
This one last diversion before the second half can begin
all Star week, it begins Monday night with a
home run derby. Pete Alonzo going for his third
career title and seeking a little revenge on Julio Rodriguez
who limited him last year after that. It's the
All Star game itself starring Alonzo and Koda Sega,
a late replacement in the national league rosters. One
prominent snub for the Mets was Francisco vendor who lost
out on the fan boat to Orlando Arcia and couldn't
quite make the team as we serve. His numbers
suggest that he probably should have met. Does it
for this week? I'm mov dot com's Anthony Duomo
reminding you to keep it tuned to MLB network and
mov dot com throughout the second half for your Mets
news. This has been the latest edition of the
Beat report.