There was a term that was floating around in the nascent days of the Mets’ first place run early in 2021: ‘Bench Mob.’ This term was coined in Spring Training, but really began to pop up in June, when players like Luis Guillorme, Jose Peraza, and Tomas Nido were getting regular at-bats for the Mets, while the team’s expectant stars like Michael Conforto and Jeff McNeil were being plagued by injuries. At some point, the terms became somewhat of a misnomer, as the bench players began playing more regularly, and were no longer relegated to riding the pine.
The Mets’ bench was amorphous, fun, and shockingly effective
