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By Jordan Sigler
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The New York Mets entered their Friday contest with the Chicago Cubs with a 7-12 record, the worst in the National League East.
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The Mets are five games back from the Atlanta Braves for first place in the division. With the MLB's second-largest payroll at over $381 million, that's not where New York expects to be so early in the season.
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The Mets offense has been pretty much non-existent in their last four games, scoring four runs in as many games and bringing just three runners home as the Los Angeles Dodgers swept New York in a three-game series this week.
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Fans booed the Mets as the Athletic's earned a sweep in New York on Sunday. Questions have been asked about the future of manager Carlos Mendoza amid an eight-game losing streak.
On Friday, Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns spoke to the media about the team's recent losing streak. He suggested Mendoza isn't a problem with New York's slide.
"I think Mendy's (Mendoza) doing a really good job," Stearns said, via ESPN. "I think he's putting our players in a position to succeed. He's enormously consistent."
Sterns thinks the Mets’ lack of scoring isn't because of effort. He suggested the offense might be trying too hard to make something happen, leading to problems.
"Urgency is not the problem here," Stearns said. "There's plenty of urgency. There's plenty of want, and sometimes that can lead to things like a higher chase rate, unfortunately... "We haven't hit. When you don't hit, you can look stagnant. I don't think we're stagnant, I think we're playing hard."
It remains to be seen how long Sterns and the Mets will be patient for the bats to wake up. New York has invested too much in this team to be at the bottom of the NL East.
The Mets were supposed to compete with the Dodgers this season. Based on the results of their series this week, New York is nowhere close to being a contender in the National League.
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