On August 11, the New York Mets had produced the 29th most runs in Major League Baseball, as the team owned a league-worst .237 batting average, along with a team on base percentage in the bottom five.
The team’s recent surge has managed to move the needle to .245 on team batting average – good for a four team jump – and total runs sit at 26th in the league, a far cry from production which was once in Philadelphia/Atlanta territory.
That forgettable period in the Mets’ season, from the June swoon that took an extra month to the dog days of August, is comfortably in the rearview mirror in a major offensive turnaround.