5 ice-cold preseason NY Mets predictions you or someone you know is guilty of making

A quick Google search reveals that an estimated 49% of US adults live with some form of cardiovascular disease. A calculated 100% of New York Mets fans had some preseason prediction that, in mid-June, is frozen.

We have nobody to blame but ourselves for buying in. So freezing cold the Inuit would refuse to live with these predictions, it’s time to revisit how wrong all of us were with some of the more common preseason takes circulating the fans.

You or someone you know had these positive Mets predictions that have turned ice cold

1) Bo Bichette will challenge for a batting title

Who’d have thunk this far into the season Bo Bichette would be closer to hitting .200 than .300? Batting titles and the Mets go together like seltzer water and cottage cheese. Rarely do you have the right mix to let it happen. Bichette, entering with a career .294 batting average, had a real chance to compete for a batting title whether it was hitting in front of or behind Juan Soto. We’ll be satisfied if he ends the season over .250 or more multi-home run games like he put together versus the Atlanta Braves on Friday. Clutch Bichette is an acceptable one if it's not going to include a .300 batting average.

2) One game could decide the NL East between the Mets and Braves

When was the last time you even checked the NL East standings? The Braves have made it a joke. Not even the Philadelphia Phillies seem to have the wherewithal to make it a race. In one example of this ice cold prediction, ESPN had the Mets winning 92 games and the Braves at 90.

3) Marcus Semien ends the Gold Glove drought

Marcus Semien is not going to win a Gold Glove. In fact, no one on this Mets team built for run prevention probably will. Injuries have been one of the main factors with Francisco Lindor and Luis Robert Jr. out for significant time. Semien went into this weekend with a -3 OAA on the year. We assume voters would be aware of all defensive traits of anyone, but we know in actuality they’ll probably just look at numbers like this which will be difficult for Semien to overcome.

4) Around 50% of the Mets’ rebound candidates will have a good year

One of Sean Manaea, David Peterson, and Kodai Senga has to have a good year. No. Brett Baty or Mark Vientos finally figures it out. Not this season. We all bought into at least one player stacking up a sudden career-year. Baty ended last year on the biggest high among these players and has quietly become nothing more than a bottom-of-the-order hitter the team can rely on for defense in a variety of places. Somehow the most useful of this bunch, it hardly qualifies as a successful prediction. Even if you weren’t quite at believing a 50% rebound, you had to figure one player would put up big numbers. Nada.

5) Craig Kimbrel has something left to give (just look at that 2025 ERA)

A 2.25 ERA in 2025? The planets have aligned. Then you look at that sample of 12 innings on non-playoff teams and realize the now 38-year-old Craig Kimbrel was pretty luckier than good. The Mets had a few acceptable outings out of Kimbrel, but he was, for quite some time, one of their weak links. He departed the Mets with a 6.00 ERA in 15 innings of work. Now on the IL for the Tampa Bay Rays,

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