Thanks to a 22-28 start to the season, the Mets will need to finish
68-44, which is a .607 winning percentage (or 98.4 win pace), to reach Sandy
Alderson’s challenge of 90 wins.
Photo: #Mets GM Sandy Alderson on a conference call with bloggers... pic.twitter.com/l7AZLhSQhw
— Randy Medina (@ReadTheApple) February 27, 2013
The
2014 season will likely be remembered for how well the Mets fared relative to
GM Sandy Alderson’s 90-win challenge/prediction in spring training. Here at
Astromets Mind, I have been keeping track of the Mets pace towards 90 wins
while looking at individual performances over approximately 20 game intervals (Here’s
the second report). Yesterday, before the Mets lost, I saw a post at
MetsMerizedOnline (Is
The Quest For 90 Over? The Math Says It Is.), which concluded, “I’m still
that annoying optimistic Mets fan, but the #QuestFor90 is over.” His conclusion
is based on the fact that “The Mets have achieved 97 wins only five other times
in their history – 1969, 1986, 1988, 1999, and 2006,” and that this team is
‘hardly’ on par with those teams. First, I wasn’t alive quite yet, but www.baseball-reference.com has the
Mets winning 98 games in 1985 – I’m a 1987 baby – which makes the total six
(out of 52 completed season, or 11.5%). I understand that he’s not claiming the
Mets are mathematically eliminated, we’re all still dreaming they have a
chance, but the piece did make me want to dig a little deeper into the Mets
history.
