The Mets don’t expect to play a meaningful game for 3½ weeks, leaving plenty of time for buildup in their probable NLDS matchup with the Dodgers.
Nothing is mathematically settled, but the biggest looming issue would appear to be home-field advantage for the best-of-five series that would begin Oct. 9.
On Monday, general manager Sandy Alderson acknowledged the benefit, from a preparation standpoint, of knowing the Mets’ likely opponent.
“I think it helps some,” Alderson said before the Mets faced the Marlins at Citi Field. “It’s not quite the same as football or basketball, where it’s matchups and schemes and game plans and things of that sort, but unless you get caught up in wanting to play one team versus another team, it probably helps a little bit, maybe focus your resources and advance scouting a little differently.