For all their star power — Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor, Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, for starters — the ultimate success of the 2023 New York Mets is heavily reliant on two less-talked-about players: Jeff McNeil and Brandon Nimmo.
Why is that? Well, in order to understand the makeup of today's Mets, let's turn back the clock to 2014, when teams were playing a much different game than they are in 2023.
The San Francisco Giants beat the Kansas City Royals in the World Series that year, hitting 132 home runs to the Royals' 95, which ranked last in the majors.
Turn back a year earlier and the St. Louis Cardinals reached the Fall Classic after ranking 27th in the majors with 125 homers.
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