What if on the dawn of the season, the only fact I told you about the 2023 Mets was that Francisco Alvarez and Kodai Senga would have excellent rookie seasons?
Buck Showalter grinned when I posed this to him. The answer so obvious that he merely said, “Of course.” As in, “Of course, I would have thought we had a terrific year.”
Senga had regular seasons of as many as 180 innings in Japan, plus he pitched on five championship clubs with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, which meant even more innings in those seasons. But through a translator, he did say that a major league season is different, due to the greater travel and long rain delays and doubleheaders and on three occasions pitching on the MLB standard four days’ rest.
But Alvarez said to simulate the wear on his body to know for future seasons he has intensified his work in the weight room on days he does not start so as to better prepare for greater usage in future years. The Mets’ target for Alvarez is between 95-110 starts. Alvarez’s seriousness of purpose at a young age even endeared him to finicky veteran pitchers — back when these Mets still had finicky veteran pitchers.
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