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Javy now has a career OPS+ of 95.
I know that Mets announcer Gary Cohen has chosen to retroactively glaze Javy's time in the orange and blue as "the best two months of [his] career", but aside from how Javy's arrival sent the Mets into the tailspin that allowed them to set the record for "most days in first place [103] by a team that finished under .500", it should be noted that Baez was playing at his same Chicago pace until September 9th (by which point the Mets were completely out of the race, even though the rest of the division had tried their best to give it to us) and only then went on a 18-game heater (.397 BA, 1.083 OPS) to save his stats.
The Mets went 5-13 during those 18 games, btw.
(Pages 53 et. sequitur of the Mets thread have all the gory details. I sometimes re-read them just to wallow in the misery. But I never anticipated we were dodging SUCH a bullet.)
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