We have previewed the Mets at length for weeks here at Amazin’ Avenue, player-by-player, position-by-position, in excruciating detail. But how about the teams they’re up against? The National League East figures to be the deepest division in baseball this year, with no team in the division outright tanking—a rarity in baseball today—but each team still having its warts. Let’s take a deeper look at the Mets’ four division rivals to gauge the competition in the way of the division crown this year.
The Braves enter the year off coming off their third-straight division title and an NLCS appearance, quickly reasserting themselves as the most consistently dominant force in NL East after a brief rebuild in the mid-2010s.