I have been trying to wrap my head around why we Mets fans are not that excited about the first place club and I think it comes down to a lack of star power.
It’s a weird thing. They win baseball games, but they win with a cast of lesser known names.
We love the young pitching, but who on this team is a genuine baseball star?
I will name three, and one isn’t around: Curtis Granderson, Matt Harvey and David Wright are baseball stars. There may be other players you like more or think are better players, but those are the three stars.
And is that what makes this season so weird?
The 2006 club had stars: Reyes, Wright, Beltran, Glavine, Pedro. Arguably Wagner and Delgado.
The 2000 club a little less: Piazza a superstar, Ziele and Ventura as Granderson types, and maybe Hampton, Leiter, Franco.
This club? No superstars for sure, and only one star “known” player playing daily.
We’ve always been told and believed winning cures everything. The Monday-Thursday crowds at Citi Field don’t look all that amazin’ (Dave Howard would say wait until the weather warms up and school is out, but why waste three months of a six month season?).
I dunno. I like watching. It’s nice. It just doesn’t have……stars.