The New York Mets and the New York Yankees share one of the country’s biggest baseball cities and markets. They both have extremely talented players in their respective rosters.
And, as far as a pure hitters go, they each have one elite representative. The Yankees‘ DJ LeMahieu, and the Mets’ Jeff McNeil are both excellent, but who’s the king of New York?
The case for Jeff McNeil, the New York Mets‘ sparkplug
As Fangraphs’ Jay Jaffe explained, Jeff McNeil is kind of a throwback. He is a contact-oriented batter with very few strikeouts and not a lot of homers, although he just hit 23 with the Mets in 2019 after clubbing 22 at three levels in 2018.