Welcome back to our Player Performance Meter series, where we publish weekly snapshots of how the position players and pitchers have performed over the past week’s worth of games.
I don’t need to tell you that the first position player meter of 2024 is going to be ugly. The Mets’ offensive struggles in spring training have carried over to the regular season. The situation is so dire, in fact, that the Mets signed J.D. Martinez shortly before the season began in a last minute effort to bolster the lineup. Martinez has not arrived with the team yet.