WASHINGTON — So many of the little things that bedevil the Mets right now are beyond the purview of their manager — or any manager.
John McGraw could glare at Alejandro De Aza for hours at a time, it wouldn’t turn De Aza from a terrible baseball player to a good one. Joe McCarthy could coax, coddle and cajole Matt Harvey 24 hours a day in between starts; won’t mean Harvey’s going to take a time machine back to 2013. Or even 2015.
Casey Stengel would take one look at this offense, and he would say one of two things:
“Can’t anybody here play this game?