The offense has been the real problem for the Mets - as of the time of writing, their 69 team wRC+ ranks dead last in MLB. Only Francisco Alvarez is off to a great start offensively; meanwhile, guys like Jeff McNeil, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, and Pete Alonso are mired in horrid slumps.
The pitching's actually been pretty good, with almost all members of the pitching staff off to good starts; veteran Jose Quintana and former-Brave-and-now-erstwhile-Met Michael Tonkin are notable exceptions that have struggled in the early going.
For the Braves, this series can be seen as another chance to gather information on their rotation options; for the Mets, who have already shed some serious playoff odds with their poor start, it could be an early-season branching point between total irrelevance and a surprising resurgence.
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