Jeff McNeil’s bat has spoken clearly of his condition as a player and this is what has kept him at a good level in the Majors.
In fact at the time of writing this text, McNeil is the best hitter in the Queens cast with an average of 323.
Numbers
The versatile player also has a 387 slugging percentage and a 448 on-base percentage to reaffirm himself as the benchmark within the New York team.
In fact, a few days ago, Francisco Lindor promised McNeil a luxury car if he won the batting title in the National League at the end of the season.
And at this point the first peculiar feature of this topic could start, because in a team where Lindor is there should be no contenders and yet, quietly, without much media hype, Jeff McNeil is giving the good note.
The context
The Mets have undoubtedly been the great sensation of the National League in 2022, due to their twenty successes, by Max Scherzer, Jacob deGrom and Francisco Lindor himself; In addition to the fact that the owner, Steve Cohen, has put everything into putting together a winning team.
They even had the luxury of discarding a man like Robinson Cano and then, once again, the figure of Jeff McNeil returns to the fore, because according to Baseball Savant, a portal specialized in the study of baseball metrics, MacNeil he is also the leader on defense within the Mets.
Mcneil’s glove
The aforementioned site alleges that in these first games of 2022, the above-average outs place Jeff McNeil as the big man with the glove on the team.
McNeil has played second base and left field, and both positions post above-average positive numbers for outs.
On the second cushion, the player has more than three outs above average and has saved up to two runs for his team.
The impact
For his part in left field, McNeil is in the league average and being able to alternate in this position and in the field opens a wide range of possibilities for the Mets and manager Buck Showalter, in order to take advantage of the offense of other players.
The McNeil thing with the glove is not from now, already in 2021, he spent the five outs above average, also playing second base and left field.
Coach Showalter himself has commented that the most impressive thing is that McNeil goes to left field and does it well and when he returns to second base he continues with the same rhythm, without losing his form or skills.
The mentality
He is a good player, consistent, with a winning mentality because he sees things in the game from a day-to-day perspective; he has even declared that his approach is to contribute from both functions because although he is famous for his batting, not every day is the same and so you have to shine on the field.
This is Jeff McNeil, a quiet guy, even simple I would say that there in the middle of New York he is being the big man of one of the best baseball teams at the moment.
