{"id":130576,"date":"2025-08-09T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130576\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:08:09","slug":"mets-david-stearns-confident-teams-hitting-slump-will-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130576\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; David Stearns confident team&#8217;s hitting slump will end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> president of baseball operations David Stearns acknowledged feeling frustrated by the team&#8217;s recent hitting struggles but expressed confidence the slump won&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets had lost eight of nine to fall 2 1\/2 games behind first-place Philadelphia in the NL East as they began a three-game series with the NL Central-leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> on Friday night. New York arrived in Milwaukee after getting swept at home by Cleveland, as the team totaled five hits while losing 3-2 and 4-1 in the final two games of that series.<\/p>\n<p>In the finale Wednesday, the Mets went hitless until the ninth inning against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4345076\/gavin-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45920943\/mets-celebrate-60th-anniversary-beatles-shea-stadium\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nhl_g_beatles_mb_1296x1296.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly everyone&#8217;s frustrated,&#8221; Stearns said before Friday&#8217;s game. &#8220;Players are frustrated. At times, I&#8217;ve been frustrated. But I believe that this is a good offensive team. I believe in the offense that we have in place, and I&#8217;m confident we&#8217;re going to see that going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stearns also expressed support for hitting coaches Eric Chavez and Jeremy Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have confidence in our hitting coaches,&#8221; Stearns said. &#8220;I think we have good hitting coaches. They have track records of helping to lead and put together really quality offenses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Mets entered Friday having failed to exceed three runs in five of their last eight games.<\/p>\n<p>For the season, the Mets ranked 15th in the majors in runs (501), 23rd in batting average (.239), 15th in on-base percentage (.318), 14th in slugging percentage (.404) and 13th in OPS (.722). Those weren&#8217;t the results expected of a lineup that features 2024 NL MVP runner-up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32129\/francisco-lindor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francisco Lindor<\/a>, five-time Silver Slugger winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36969\/juan-soto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Soto<\/a> and five-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/37498\/pete-alonso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Alonso<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Mets were seventh in runs (768), 12th in batting average (.246), eighth in on-base percentage (.319), 10th in slugging percentage (.415) and ninth in OPS (.734) as they earned a wild-card playoff berth and ended up in the National League Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>Stearns and manager Carlos Mendoza cited the track record of the Mets&#8217; hitters as reason to believe things will turn around soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re really good players and they&#8217;ve done it before,&#8221; Mendoza said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just, when you&#8217;re going through it, it gets noisy, you know? But when you look at our players, when you look at that locker room, there&#8217;s a lot of talent there. They&#8217;ll get out of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stearns also pointed to the way the Mets&#8217; hitters have responded to this recent adversity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think you go through our clubhouse, my guess is you sense frustration, but you&#8217;re probably not sensing panic and you&#8217;re probably also seeing a level of preparation and focus that&#8217;s really good,&#8221; Stearns said. &#8220;When I see those things, it gives me confidence that we&#8217;re going to snap out of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE &#8212; New York Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns acknowledged feeling frustrated by the team&#8217;s recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-130576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114996373522135781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}