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Mere hours after last week’s position player meter was published, the Metsfired hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting coach Tom Slater. Hugh Quattlebaum was named the new hitting coach and Kevin Howard was named the new assistant hitting coach. At the time of Davis’ firing, despite the offense having experienced a bit of a reawakening the weekend before, the team was 29th in baseball in runs scored. Since Quattlebaum took over, the Mets have scored 25 runs over six games (4.17 runs per game), which is not outstanding, but puts them more in the middle of the pack rather than at the bottom of the league. Given the way the pitching staff has performed in the early going, a merely average offense is enough to win the Mets a lot of games. Overall this week (which includes one game in the Chili Davis era and six games in the Hugh Quattlebaum era), the Mets went 5-2 with the five wins coming in succession in a still-active winning streak. Over
How new Mets hitting coach Hugh Quattlebaum will approach his role in helping team’s offense
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New York Mets Pete Alonso stares at his bat while facing Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Chi Chi Gonzalez in the first inning in the first baseball game of a doubleheader, Saturday, April 17, 2021, in Denver.David Zalubowski | AP Photo
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Hugh Quattlebaum spent spring training getting to know some of the Mets’ major-league players, but most of his time was used to work with prospects as a member of the player development department.
Now he’ll need to hit the ground running with the major-league club after the Mets fired hitting coach Chili Davis on Monday before promoting Quattlebaum.
This Week in Mets Quotes: The front office and players react to the firing of Chili Davis and Tom Slater
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Honestly, I lost track of which win was going to be ‘The Win’ that’s a momentum-shifter.
“I don’t know if that’s a season-defining game tonight but it’s definitely a momentum-shifter.” -Pete Alonso [MLB]
Villar on his aggressive baserunning.
“I don’t care. I’m not scared to play baseball.” -Jonathan Villar [MLB]
Sincerely love Pete Alonso immediately translating after he spoke rudimentary Spanish; I can’t help but read all of his quotes in Chris Farley’s talk show sketch cadence.
Mets’ Francisco Lindor explains what he needs to do to snap out of slump
Posted May 07, 2021
New York Mets Francisco Lindor hit .189 in April after signing a 10-year, $341 million contract.David Zalubowski | AP Photo
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If Francisco Lindor walked up to the plate, swung his bat down like a lumberjack and got a hit, he’d take it at this point.
The star Mets shortstop has struggled mightily at the plate during his first season in New York. He finished April with a .189 average, and that only got worse in the early days of May, where he failed to record a hit in his first four games of the month.