3 NY Mets players who let us down in 2024 that won’t again in 2025

2) Kodai Senga

We barely saw Kodai Senga at all in 2024. An injury in the spring followed by one start in the summer which included an early exit, Senga was a missing page in the book of the 2024 Mets. He was able to return in the postseason and his two abbreviated outings didn’t leave an encouraging feeling.

Fans shouldn’t worry nor does it seem there is any genuine concern. He could have just as easily posted Cy Young numbers in the regular season and then gone out and pitched the same dud in the NLCS against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He deserves the benefit of the doubt. It doesn’t save him from being one of those Mets players who let us down in a major way last year.

Senga was the ace of the staff heading into the year. The rotation was purposefully built around helping him to avoid a sophomore slump. We got more of an incomplete than anything else.

Injuries are fluky and entirely unpredictable. So, too, was the decision to start him in Game 1 of the NLCS when after looking just okay in the NLDS, the Mets moved forward with treating him like there were few questions with him. We have to believe things with Senga will go much better in 2025. A horrific playoff start is not the taste we want to be left with much longer.