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The New York Mets were counting on the new guys to deliver.
Instead, the likes of Bo Bichette, Luis Robert Jr., Jorge Polanco and Marcus Semien have been an overall disappointment.
They've been a big part of why the Mets are off to such a rough start to the season, and the numbers aren't pretty.
ESPN's Bradford Doolittle did the favor in a new article of combining the stats of that quartet together.
"If you were to mash Luis Robert Jr., Bo Bichette, Jorge Polanco and Marcus Semien into one player, the combined line would be .217/.277/.300 over 449 plate appearances with six homers and 37 RBIs," Doolittle writes.
Oof, that's definitely not good enough.
They haven't even all stayed healthy, either.
"Robert and Polanco have found their way to the IL, unsurprising given their playing time histories, and Semien might simply be done as an above-average hitter," Doolittle writes.
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Bichette was already the highest-profile add of the bunch, but his importance might be even higher now.
"So there is an awful lot of pressure on Bichette to get on a roll and help the offense start to crawl its way back from a collective freefall that has seen the Mets' playoff odds dwindle to long shot territory -- and we're only in the first week of May," Doolittle writes.
The Mets might already be doomed by injuries and a cold start, but if they're going to save their season, it will depend a lot on these new guys getting healthy and showing what they still can do. But it'll be an uphill climb, because they started their season in quite the valley.
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