Mets Player Performance Meter: Position players, September 22-28

The Mets stumbled in the final week of the regular season, missing the playoffs by playing .500 ball and finishing with the same record as the Reds, who held the tiebreaker and are therefore currently playing in the NL Wild Card series against the Dodgers in LA. The Mets began the week by taking two out of three from the Cubs, who had already clinched their playoff spot. But then—we’ve seen this movie before—they lost two out of three to the Marlins to fall just short of a playoff berth. What’s more,

they were shutout in their final game and this meter reflects a rather ugly offensive finish to the 2025 season.

Player	Last week	This week
Luisangel Acuña, INF
Pete Alonso, 1B
Francisco Alvarez, C
Brett Baty, 2B/3B
Francisco Lindor, SS
Starling Marte, OF/DH
Ronny Mauricio, SS/3B
Jeff McNeil, 2B/OF
Cedric Mullins, OF
Brandon Nimmo, OF
Juan Soto, OF
Tyrone Taylor, OF
Luis Torrens, C
Mark Vientos, 3B
Jared Young, 1B/DH	—

This meter tells a story that has played out for most of the season: positive grades for the top of the Mets’ lineup, but poor to putrid performances from nearly everybody else. The one exception is Tyrone Taylor who returned from injury and was like a breath of fresh air compared to what the Mets had been getting in center field. Taylor ended his season on a positive note, making an immediate impact with an outfield assist and racking up four hits and two RBIs in 13 plate appearances. When Taylor was reinstated from the injured list, Jose Siri (who does not appear on this meter because though he did appear in one game this last week, he did not get any plate appearances) was designated for assignment. Cedric Mullins, who had been playing nearly every day prior to Taylor’s return, logged just five plate appearances in the final week of the season, over which he went hitless, bringing his unsuccessful Mets tenure to an fittingly unceremonious end.

Speaking of unceremonious endings, Starling Marte’s last week in a Mets’ uniform did not go well, sadly. He managed just a single and a run scored over his final 13 plate appearances. Marte wasn’t always healthy during his four-year tenure in Queens, but he was one of the Mets’ best hitters for the playoff bound 2022 team and was productive in a reduced role overall in 2025 while serving as a mentor to Juan Soto in his first year as a Met.

Unfortunately Brett Baty had to spend the final couple of games of what was a solid season for him on the injured list with an oblique strain he suffered during a swing in Friday’s game. He had been having a good week with the bat prior to going down, launching a three-run bomb in the series finale in Chicago as his 2025 keynote. Ronny Mauricio played at third base in the final two games for the Mets. Mauricio had just one hit and two walks in ten plate appearances. Jared Young was added to the roster to replace Baty and did not reach base in his only plate appearance. Luisangel Acuña went hitless in four plate appearances, but walked once and scored a run.

Despite a so-so 106 wRC+ over 26 plate appearances in perhaps his final six games in a Mets uniform after a historic Mets career, Pete Alonso carried the offense in the season’s penultimate game with an RBI double, a home run, a walk, and two runs scored. In total, he drove in four runs and scored four runs this week and collected six hits, which is the second-most on the team. If Alonso’s 115.9 mph line drive on Sunday had found the gap, we would perhaps be having a very different conversation right now. Instead, it’s possible that will be his final act as a Met.

Despite multiple hand injuries that may have ended other players’ seasons, Francisco Alvarez had a great final week, putting up a 174 wRC+ in 19 plate appearances over the final six games. In the series opener in Chicago, Alvarez came up huge with the season in the balance, belting a go-ahead two-run homer that helped the Mets win the game. It was one of two long balls and four hits for Alvarez in this final week. Alvarez also walked three times, drove in four runs, and scored four runs. Luis Torrens was not quite as productive with two singles and a run scored in eight plate appearances in the last week of the season.

Brandon Nimmo led the Mets with eight hits in the final six games of the season, posting a 124 wRC+ in 26 plate appearances. His only extra-base hit of the week was a crucial one—a game-tying three-run homer that helped the Mets crawl out of the abyss in the series opener in Chicago and come back from five runs behind. Overall, he scored three runs and drove in four runs. He walked only once—representative of a season in which he posted a career-low walk rate.

Francisco Lindor led the team in RBIs this week with six. He put up a 197 wRC+ in his final 28 plate appearances of the season, which also led the team. He also led the team in home runs (3) and walks (5) en route to another 30/30 season as a Met. Lindor tried to put the team on his back again but this time the burden was too great and he couldn’t get them over the finish line.

By contrast, Juan Soto, who had an absolute monster season overall, sputtered in his final week, putting up a mediocre 78 wRC+ and driving in just one run via a solo homer in Wednesday’s loss in Chicago. Soto had just four hits this final week, but he did also walk four times and score three runs. He also stole three bases, chasing the elusive 40/40 season, of which he fell just short with 38 stolen bases.

Jeff McNeil notched just two hits in his final 19 plate appearances of the season—good for a 30 wRC+—but they were both doubles, one of which drove in a run. McNeil reached base two other times—once via a walk and once via a hit by pitch—and scored a run. McNeil has still not returned to the version of himself that was once a batting champion, but his 111 wRC+ and 2.1 fWAR this season are an improvement over his down year in 2024 and his versatility still proved very useful for the Mets in 2025.