Weighted by usage, the Mets have on average the oldest group of pitchers in the majors and the second-oldest position player assemblage.
Yet they also have a counterintuitive shot to have three players vie for NL Rookie of the Year votes, though one of the candidates is 30-year-old Kodai Senga. The others are Francisco Alvarez and Brett Baty, who are 21 and 23, respectively, and key pieces of the Mets’ present and future.
If it isn’t obvious yet, NL Rookie of the Year is the focus of our weekly Awards Watch. And at this point, the best any Met could hope for would be to wedge into a single spot on the ballot. The BBWAA ballot has room for three players, and currently two NL West outfielders, the Dodgers’ James Outman and the Diamondbacks’ Corbin Carroll, would likely be 1-2 or 2-1 on all 30 ballots.
What we haven’t seen develop nearly a quarter into the season is a clear-cut No. 3. So the Mets’ trio is in the running with the Cubs’ Hayden Wesneski (acquired from the Yankees for Scott Effross), the Marlins’ Huascar Brazoban and San Francisco’s Blake Sabol.
