The time for waiting until next year is over, as parity across baseball has created an opening for the Mets to earn a playoff appearance for the first time since 2006.
As baseball’s second half begins, no division leader holds more than a 4¹/u2082-game lead, and the Mets enter the second half of what already has been a compelling season trailing the division-leading Nationals by just two games. In a year when the Nationals were bestowed a crown in February, it’s the Mets who are in position to grab the division behind a talented rotation.
Nevertheless, it’s the Mets’ bats which threaten to derail their season, and MLB Network analyst and 2004 World Series champion Kevin Millar said they need to be active on the trade market to correct that flaw.