Don’t get me wrong, Javier Baez is a very good baseball player. He’s a gold-glove caliber fielder, an outstanding baserunner, a great power bat (especially for a middle infielder), and overall just one of the most exciting players in the league — even more so since he got to the New York Mets.
He’s probably been the Amazin’s best player during the team’s not-so-slow descent from first place in the NL East to yet another losing record.
He’s been great, certainly better than a lot of people thought he would be, myself included. However, if the Mets re-sign him in the offseason, I am worried that these last two months will be the best two months Baez will ever have in the orange and blue.