While there were other players in camp with the Mets, the team’s five-man bench was pretty easy to predict back when spring training started. And once Jose Martinez suffered a knee injury that will cost him a few months, the odds were pretty high that the group would end up being Luis Guillorme, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Albert Almora Jr., and Tomás Nido.
All of those players are included in our write-ups of the various parts of the team’s roster—the infield, outfield, and catcher—so let’s focus on what they have to offer when they’re coming off the bench.