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The Mets Win!

For the past eleven games, the Mets have put on a clinic on "Losing Baseball". Once could make that argument about the past three seasons, but even moreso recently. They finally won a game today, though let's hope that it's just a minor roadblock on the road to another Top-5 draft slot this offseason.

Really, the Mets need to just tank it at this point. I certainly don't endorse losing on purpose, but that essentially what the Mets have been doing of late. I'm not implying that they've quit outright, but it sure as hell seems that way some times (read: most times).

As it stands now, the Mets sport the fifth-worst record in the NL and the ninth-worst record overall, which means the Mets would pick 9th in next year's draft if the season ended today. (The leagues used to alternate draft picks, so the fifth-worst record in the NL would have automatically picked 10th. This year the draft format will change so that teams draft in reverse order of winning percentage, regardless of league). The good news is that five teams (the Expos, Brewers, Rockies, Devil Rays, and Blue Jays) are all within two-and-a-half games of the Mets, so the Mets could conceivably land the 4th pick (the D-Backs, Royals, and Mariners are all much worse, record-wise, than the Mets).

A high draft slot next year, coupled with this past draft's stockpile of young arms, will go a long way towards replenishing the Mets farm system, which was #10 (by Baseball America) at the start of the season.

So, for the last three weeks of the season, I look forward to seeing as much of David Wright hitting and the Mets losing as possible.