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How the schedule could impact three key NBA playoff races
It’s a bit quaint to look back on the past in the NBA and remember the late-season playoff hunts. Teams were really seeking the No. 1 seed and home-court advantage through the playoffs. When Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls had their double three-peat in the 1990s, you know what their record was from March 5 through the end of the regular season? 112-30. They won 79% of their games, and Jordan didn’t sit them out.
With load management and the play-in tournament, there are different ways of managing a team’s late stretch to set up for playoff success. The Indiana Pacers came from the 4-seed to nearly take out the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals last season. The Dallas Mavericks came from a 5-seed to make the Finals the year before. So now there are different targets. A top-six seed is important to avoid the play-in, but note that Miami made the Finals in 2023 after going through the play-in.
What follows are some of the races for different seeds that teams hope to set themselves up for in the playoffs in April.
All stats through Sunday.
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Western Conference Top 4 Seed
The Thunder and Spurs each have at least a 98% chance to stay in the top two seeds in the West. The play-in spots are nearly locked in across the Suns, Warriors, Clippers and Trail Blazers, with some uncertainty in their order. But there is a race among four teams to get to the two remaining first-round home-court advantage spots.
Projected record: 51-31 (55% chance at top-four seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: 10th hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 4 (Washington, Utah, Sacramento, Chicago, Dallas, Memphis, and Indiana are considered to be tankful teams)
With ESPN Analytics, we tend to approach things quantitatively, capturing the essence of a story through numbers. Houston, for example, wins games by an average of plus-4.7 points, with a league-leading plus-4.1 of that coming solely from its offensive rebounding. The Rockets are also good in transition offense, getting plus-3.4 net points per game, ranking No. 7 in the NBA. They also turn it over a lot, 15.7 times per game, the most of any team currently in playoff position. On the other end of the floor, they’re top seven on defense.
Sometimes those numbers paint a nice picture. In this case, if you look carefully, a lot of those numbers for Houston are actually a lot like the Detroit Pistons, the best team in the league. The Pistons are fourth in offensive rebounding and fifth in transition offense, have the third most turnovers among playoff teams, and play top-five defense.
So does Houston have a chance to pull it together like Detroit? When watching the tape, what comes to mind are words such as “ugly,” “ill-fitting” and “disconnected.”
For the Rockets’ sake, hopefully the stretch run follows the numbers, not the words.
Critical games: Two games against the Lakers (March 16 and 18), two games against the Wolves (March 25, April 10) and a game against Denver on Wednesday.
Projected record: 50-32 (52% chance at top-four seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: Fourth hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 3
The Timberwolves have had the fewest losses added by injury this season, a year removed from being fourth best at it. Their general health is a superpower that partially makes up for them being just generally good, not great. They’re top 10 in almost every extended four-factor metric, but they’re in the top five in only one: transition offense.
Anthony Edwards is great, though. He is top 15 in overall net points metrics — whether it’s total net points, net points per 100 possessions or WAR. That’s All-NBA level, but is it blow-you-away great? Ant has the one-word nickname, but is he up there with SGA, Jokic, Luka, Kawhi and Spida? Does he need to be? Tyrese Haliburton carried a solid Indiana roster to within a few minutes of a title last season as the No. 4 seed. The Pacers earned that spot by having a 15-4 record from March 11 to the end of the season. Minnesota has the fourth-most-difficult schedule down the stretch, so it will be hard to do that, but Indiana coincidentally had the fifth-hardest schedule down the stretch last season as well.
Critical games: Lakers (Tuesday), Clippers (Wednesday) and Warriors (Friday). That could be a fun or agonizing trip. Then a pause before two against Houston (March 25 and April 10).
Projected record: 50-32 (59% chance at top-four seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: 12th hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 5
The biggest hurdle the Nuggets face down the stretch is the sudden malaise of Nikola Jokic (or mal-wrist, per ESPN’s Brian Windhorst). For years, he has been a standout in terms of performance, as legitimately the best player on the planet. The Nuggets were dominant with him on the court and bad with him off it. His ability to make a pass no one else could imagine turned them into an automatic top offense.
The Nuggets had the best offense before his injury this season, and he was the second-best offensive player in the league (behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander). Since his return, their offense has fallen to sixth and his net points per 48 minutes level has dropped to seventh. Did they use Jokic-style kryptonite as part of his rehab?
Sure, the Nuggets are missing Aaron Gordon and he’s important, but only Jokic makes opponents fear them. And he hasn’t been right.
Critical games: One game against the Lakers (March 14), a game against Houston (March 11), two games against the Spurs (April 4 and 12) and a game against the Warriors (March 29).
Projected record: 48-34 (31% chance at top-four seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: Sixth hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 5
The phrase “treating people like numbers” implies an impersonal touch to working with people. In the great game of basketball, especially in the analytics era that I helped push myself, I think of this as often manifesting itself somewhat in lineup analysis: Which lineups are good and which are bad? The Lakers have messed around with a lot of lineups. Who can we play with Luka Doncic and LeBron James to actually be good? Should we play Austin Reaves as a starter or as a reserve? Should we play Jarred Vanderbilt at all?
Those are questions that numbers can provide some guidance on, but coaching is about figuring out how to best put those same players together and then teaching them. It’s not just about fiddling with the pieces, but also making those pieces work together better.
And that is what is staring down coach JJ Redick currently, the past six months and the next couple of months: how to coach the guys he has so they do their roles better. It isn’t happening now. Doncic, James and Reaves are all good, but they don’t complement each other: James and Reaves have better offensive net points rates without Doncic; Doncic and Reaves are better without James; and Doncic and James are better without Reaves. Figuring out how they can best work together could take the Lakers into the top four and beyond with the talent they have.
Critical games: The next 10 days or so are critical, with two games against Houston and one apiece against Denver and Minnesota. Winning all of them is hard, but these guys all want the spotlight, and these games will bring it.
Eastern Conference 2-seed
In the East, the Celtics, Knicks and Cavs are bunched up in a heat to get the No. 2 seed, with their chances to capture it changing a good amount with each game. But then there is also a four-way fight between the Raptors, Sixers, Magic and Heat to get the No. 5 and No. 6 seeds to avoid the play-in.
Projected record: 53-29 (53% chance at top-two seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: Hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 2
The Celtics have the hardest schedule remaining per the BPI, but Jayson Tatum is back! His return — despite questions of how well he’ll fit in — is viewed favorably by the BPI, which is why it gives them good odds at the No. 2 seed in the East. It is really assuming that he comes back close to where he has been (a top-15 player). If he is at that level, the medical staff did their job and he got sufficient reps with all the rotation players who weren’t there when he got hurt — Hugo Gonzalez, Nikola Vucevic, Luka Garza.
The Celtics have done a great job ignoring the Tatum question in the room so far and taking care of business. They aren’t actually better than last season (when they won 61 games), but it feels like it because they never put up a stinker (until the Charlotte game last Wednesday). They’re the anti-Lakers, who seem to either win or get blown out this season. Tatum’s return is only going to add to their competitiveness and their talent level. Any awkwardness in fitting Tatum with teammates is better to work out before the playoffs, regardless of what seed they get.
Critical games: The game against the Knicks on April 9 looks critical now, but there is a whole month ahead of that matchup to determine whether it stays critical. The Celtics still get the Thunder twice and the Spurs once, which are more critical as tests of their high-end competitiveness than toward keeping the second seed.
Projected record: 53-29 (38% chance at top-two seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: 24th hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 6
You know what probably hurts the Knicks the most? The fact that their fan base thinks they’re title favorites after every win and that they should trade every guy on their roster (except Jalen Brunson) after every loss.
Yes, the Knicks are inconsistent. OG Anunoby, Josh Hart and Mikal Bridges are all among the top 50 most inconsistent players across the past three seasons. (The fan base would subjectively add Karl-Anthony Towns, too.) What this means is, over the past nearly three seasons, Anunoby has had 44 games with plus-3 net points or more, 44 games with worse than minus-3 net points, and 84 games in between. He’s good for a game, average for two, and then bad for a game. With two other guys following the same pattern, that’s a big reason the fan base is frustrated.
Critical games: The Knicks play Boston on April 9, and it could be critical for both teams to get the No. 2. Outside of that, taking care of some of their tough matchups — Houston, Charlotte and the Clippers — is what would benefit them the most.
Projected record: 52-30 (11% chance at top-two seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: 29th hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 7
Despite what has seemed like a disappointing season for the Cavs, they have the second-best offense when schedule-adjusted and the BPI ranks them fifth overall in terms of playoff strength (which is when the best players will fight through injury).
But the BPI liked them in the playoffs last year, and they disappointed with a second-round exit to the Indiana Pacers. That has been the theme for this team: playoff disappointments despite how strong the regular season was. Donovan Mitchell has spun the regular-season struggles this year as an opportunity to learn to fight through adversity in preparation for the upcoming playoffs. With that mentality, I’m not sure the Cavs care about getting the No. 2 seed. They’ll be happy anywhere in the top four in the East, and they have a 98% chance of that.
Critical games: The Cavs have no head-to-head matchups left with either Boston or New York, so it’s really about taking care of business against a pretty easy schedule.
Eastern Conference Top 6 Seeds
Projected record: 45-37 (54% chance at top-six seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: 17th hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 4
The Raptors are 6-17 against the BPI top 10 teams in the NBA, and they have gone 10-13 against the teams remaining on their schedule. Their ability to keep the play-in at bay is currently questionable at best. The BPI might give them a solid 54% chance of making the top six in the East, but it has whiffed more on Toronto predictions this season than any other playoff contender other than Philadelphia.
The BPI doesn’t trust the Raptors. Why? One part is normal: Their best player just isn’t elite. Scottie Barnes is a good player, but he’s not an All-NBA caliber player yet. The other part is that they’ve been playing without a legitimate center for much of the season — Barnes, Collin Murray-Boyles and Sandro Mamukelashvili have filled in as a committee. Barnes and Murray-Boyles are tough, and Mamukelashvili is tall, so it gives them a chance. But having Jakob Poeltl return from injury recently is what can really help because he’s good in putbacks. The Raptors can get offensive boards, but size like Poeltl’s helps a lot in converting them into points.
Critical games: The Raptors get Miami twice in the last week of the season, and those games will likely be important. Orlando at the end of March also will be critical.
Projected record: 44-38 (24% chance at top-six seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: 21st hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 6
Tyrese Maxey leads the NBA in net points coming in transition — a combination of volume and efficiency. But when the Sixers faced the second-best transition defense in the league, the Spurs on March 3, Maxey was stymied in both transition and the half court. And that’s important for the Sixers down the stretch.
Maxey has averaged plus-5.3 offensive net points per game when the Sixers win, minus-0.4 when they lose, the biggest split on the Sixers and a top-10 split across the league. Without a healthy Joel Embiid or Paul George, he has to carry a lot, so it’s not too difficult for playoff-level teams to limit him. Embiid’s performance has been good this season at plus-3.2 net points per 48 minutes, but you never know when he’s going to play. We know that George won’t be back until later in March with his suspension, so Maxey will be carrying the load for a while once he returns from his right finger sprain.
Critical games: The Sixers have only one game remaining against this tier of teams (at Miami, March 30) and it’s their most critical game. Then doing some hard work to beat Charlotte, Minnesota, Houston and Detroit will help them. Otherwise, it’s not a tough schedule.
Projected record: 44-38 (50% chance at top-six seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: 14th hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 5
Orlando gets seven games against tanking teams. So far this season, the Magic’s nominal team leader, Paolo Banchero, actually hasn’t been very good against those teams, averaging just plus-1.9 net points per 48 minutes, which is 110th. But that was when the tankers still wanted to win! Since the deadline, which is when tanksgiving began, Banchero has produced plus-5.3 net points per 48 minutes. If he keeps that up, it should help as he has Orlando’s highest usage rate.
But, that list of most inconsistent players I mentioned regarding the Knicks before — Banchero leads that, as No. 1 in most inconsistent performances in the past three years. If you want to know whether the Magic will win or lose, look to him.
Critical games: The Magic get Toronto and Miami before the end of March, and those games will go the furthest in impacting their top-six hopes. Keeping Charlotte and Atlanta (twice) at bay are their other big ones.
Projected record: 45-37 (55% chance at top-six seed)
Remaining strength of schedule rank: 22nd hardest
Number of tanking teams they’ll face: 4
Miami is the team that went 11-30 in 2016-17, then went 30-11 the rest of the way. I always remember that when it comes to Erik Spoelstra-led teams. They can really turn the ship around in a hurry. The Heat did it when they went to the Finals against Denver in 2023, as well, after having to go through the play-in as the No. 8 seed.
They’re probably saying, “We don’t need no top-six seed.”
Well, the coaching staff isn’t saying that. Coaches generally are some of the most worried people in the game. They want every game to be easy and, frankly, the Heat have a mixed bag of easy and hard. They get the Wizards three times, but …
Critical games: As the weather turns hot in Miami, so does the schedule. The Heat play Toronto twice, as well as Charlotte, Philadelphia and Orlando the rest of the way, all games that will shape the final top six.
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The Yankees are playing a dangerous game with Ryan Weathers
Ryan Weathers has not been the Yankees‘ best starting pitcher this season, but he’s arguably been the biggest surprise. It’s now time for manager Aaron Boone and his staff to take steps to make sure Weathers can contribute to the AL East powerhouse all season long.
The big issue with Weathers during his tenure with the Marlins was never talent. It was all about availability. The 26-year-old left hander just could not stay healthy in Miami. That’s a big reason why they were willing to trade him to the Yankees for a relatively modest group of prospects back in the offseason.
New York’s bet on Weathers’ arm talent has paid off handsomely this season. He’s posted a 3.14 ERA in 10 starts and has struck out 65 hitters in 57.1 innings of work. The workload Weathers has absorbed through the first third of the season should be setting off alarm bells for higher-ups in the Bronx.
The Yankees need to send Ryan Weathers to the bullpen
Weathers has never managed to throw more than 114.2 innings in a given season. He’s on pace to blow past that mark around the All Star Break. That might help the Yankees maximize their regular season win total, but that’s not the franchise’s goal. Boone and his staff need to make sure they’re doing everything possible to maximize this roster’s chances of winning big in the playoffs.
That’s why moving Weathers to the bullpen sooner, rather than later, is the right path forward for the Yankees. Admittedly, that would put more pressure on the team’s current crop of starters to continue their hot start to the 2026 season. It might also necessitate bringing Elmer Rodriguez back to the Bronx and living with any struggles he might have as the team’s fifth starter.
The flipside to that downgrade to the rotation would be a very likely boost to the bullpen’s credentials. The team’s relief corps has been a massive issue for Boone on the young season. Adding a dynamic southpaw with swing-and-miss stuff could do wonders to help New York hold leads as the regular season rolls along.
The obvious benefit for Weathers would be to slow down his workload to the point where he would stand a better chance to stay healthy for the full season and playoffs. He can reasonably be expected to exceed his previous career high of innings pitched, but doing so by 50+ innings is just asking for injury trouble.
Will the Yankees move Ryan Weathers out of the rotation?
The answer to this question is almost certainly yes. Absent another massive injury to a starter, the Yankees are the sort of forward-thinking franchise that will move to protect a talented, young arm like Weathers. The only real question is when Boone will pull the trigger on what some fans will view as a conservative decision. Weathers’ place in the starting rotation is winding down at a rapid rate.
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Marlins At Mets: Bobby V And Mazzilli Enter The Mets Hall Of Fame On Saturday, With Beltrán To Follow In September
NEW YORK — The Miami Marlins (26-31) arrive at Citi Field on Friday for three games against the New York Mets (23-33) on the kind of weekend that gives a Mets fan in May reasons to look up. The franchise is inducting Lee Mazzilli and Bobby Valentine into its Hall of Fame on Saturday afternoon. Carlos Beltrán, the third member of this year’s class, will have his number 15 retired and his induction ceremony in September. The first 15,000 fans through the gates Friday get a Bobby Valentine Disguise giveaway — fake mustache, glasses, the entire 1999-era bit. Fireworks Night follows Friday’s game.
Both clubs walk into Citi Field still in the conversation. The Mets are 4.5 games out of the third National League Wild Card. The Marlins are five out. The dog days of summer have not arrived. There is a full month of June ahead, then the trade deadline, then everything that comes with it. For two teams that started slow in a division that has not yet produced a runaway leader, this weekend is the kind of stretch you bank wins from while the standings are still soft.
New York Mets’ Juan Soto flips his bat after hittin a two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Friday: Meyer at Peralta
Max Meyer (5-0, 2.52 ERA) takes the ball Friday night at 7:10 p.m. ET for the Marlins. Meyer is the only undefeated starter in baseball with at least eight starts. He has 68 strikeouts in 60-plus innings and a sub-2.55 ERA. Meyer threw six sharp innings in Miami’s 12-0 win over the Atlanta Braves on May 18 and has not lost a decision in 2026. He is the kind of arm a club builds around.
Freddy Peralta (3-4, 3.52 ERA) takes the ball for the Mets. The 30-year-old Dominican right-hander pitched for the Dominican Republic at the 2026 World Baseball Classic and has 63 strikeouts across his 11 starts. He last faced these Marlins in Miami on Saturday and lost a 1-0 pitchers’ duel that could just as easily have gone the other way. He is one of the few healthy rotation pieces the Mets have and he has been pitching like it.
Saturday: Phillips at Scott — And A Hall Of Fame Ceremony
Tyler Phillips (0-0, 1.07 ERA) starts for the Marlins on Saturday at 4:10 p.m. ET, his second career start after being stretched out from the bullpen. Phillips threw five innings last Sunday at home, allowed one earned run, and helped complete a sweep of these same Mets. The story of Phillips this month is the story of a long-relief guy quietly playing his way into a rotation spot. Christian Scott (0-0, 3.20 ERA) starts for the Mets in what is essentially his sixth professional outing — a young right-hander with real stuff and the chance to introduce himself to a national broadcast slot.
Before the first pitch, on the field, the Mets will induct Mazzilli and Valentine into the team Hall of Fame. The first 15,000 fans through the gates receive a Mazzilli/Valentine players pin. Mazzilli is going to walk out to his old position with the entire Brooklyn-Italian section of the borough cheering. Valentine is going to walk out for the first time as a Mets Hall of Famer with the franchise’s modern playoff era — the one between Davey Johnson and Terry Collins — formally recognized at last.
Sunday: Junk at McLean
Janson Junk (3-5, 4.80 ERA) gets the ball for Miami on Sunday at 1:40 p.m. ET in the series finale. Junk last pitched Wednesday in Toronto in relief and is on three days of rest in a swing-starter role. Jonah McLean (2-4, 4.40 ERA), a 26-year-old Mets right-hander with 75 strikeouts on the season, gets the start opposite him. McLean has the highest strikeout-per-nine on the Mets’ active starting staff. Junk needs the kind of grind-it-out start that Marlins fans have seen him give before. The kind that puts a weekend in motion.
FILE – Former New York Mets’ Bobby Valentine, wearing a fake moustache, reacts as he is introduced during an Old-Timers’ Day ceremony before a baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and the Mets on Aug. 27, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)
The Bobby V Weekend, And What It Means
Bobby Valentine spent seven years managing the Mets from 1996 to 2002. He took the team to consecutive postseasons for the first time in franchise history. He took them to the 2000 World Series, the only Mets manager to do so between 1986 and 2015. He left with the second-most wins of any manager in team history. But the reason this Hall of Fame induction is happening this weekend, on a Marlins-Mets weekend, is what Valentine did in the ten days between September 11, 2001 and the resumption of baseball in New York City on September 21.
Shea Stadium became a staging ground for first responders headed to Ground Zero. Valentine personally fed workers at his nearby restaurant. He organized players and staffers for relief efforts. He visited Ground Zero on multiple occasions. He helped establish Tuesday’s Children, a nonprofit created to support the more than 3,000 children who lost a parent in the attacks. That organization still operates today and continues to support families almost twenty-five years later. That is the work being honored on Saturday afternoon. The 536 wins are the resume. The decade of post-9/11 community work is the reason the room will be on its feet.
New York Yankees first base coach Lee Mazzilli, left, and New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine share a laugh before Game 1 of the World Series Saturday, Oct. 21, 2000, at New York’s Yankee Stadium. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
Valentine has also been a quiet ambassador for international baseball. He managed in Japan for the Chiba Lotte Marines, winning a Japan Series in 2005 and developing a generation of Japanese players who later came to MLB. He threw out a ceremonial first pitch at a 2013 World Baseball Classic game in Fukuoka. The Mets going into the World Baseball Classic era with an open-door philosophy — Steve Cohen has consistently encouraged Mets players to represent their countries when invited, from Soto and Peralta to Brazobán and Vientos — is a continuation of a posture Valentine helped author in the franchise twenty years before the WBC even existed.
Bobby Valentine, a former manager of Boston Red Sox, throws a ceremonial first pitch at the World Baseball Classic first round game between Japan and China in Fukuoka, Japan, Sunday, March 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Former New York Mets’ manager Bobby Valentine, left, talks with Italy’s head coach Mike Piazza, right, prior to the quarterfinal game between Italy and Japan at the World Baseball Classic (WBC) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, March 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Lee Mazzilli, The Brooklyn Mets Story
Lee Mazzilli was drafted by the Mets in 1973 out of Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn. He played ten years in Queens across two stints, was a 1979 All-Star, and hit the first home run by a Met in an All-Star Game that summer in Seattle. He is the kind of player every Brooklyn family of a certain generation tells stories about. He is also, importantly for World Baseball Network’s readership, the most prominent Italian-American figure in the modern Mets canon — a Brooklyn kid, an Italian last name on the back of a Mets jersey, drafted out of a New York City public high school. The bridge between borough and franchise that the team has tried to recreate in every generation since.
New York Mets outfielder Lee Mazzilli, manager Joe Torre Listen to coach Willie Mays talk outfield. Mays and Mazzilli are arrivals at camp to work on Mazzilli’s outfield problems on Feb. 21, 1978 in St. Petersburg, Florida. (AP Photo)
Mazzilli came back for the 1986 World Series team. In Game 6 against the Boston Red Sox, with the Mets one strike from elimination, Mazzilli came off the bench in the eighth inning, walked, and scored the tying run on a sacrifice fly by Gary Carter. He went 2-for-3 with two runs scored across Games 6 and 7. The man on third base when Bill Buckner’s error happened was a different teammate, but the one who scored the run that *brought the Mets within one* in that inning was Lee Mazzilli of Brooklyn.
New York Mets Lee Mazzilli reacts as he crosses home plate to score the Mets’ third run of the game on a sacrifice fly by Gary Carter against the Boston Red Sox in New York, Oct. 26, 1986. The Mets went on to win the sixth game of the World Series 6-5 in 10 innings. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan)
Carlos Beltrán, The Cooperstown Clock
Carlos Beltrán is the third inductee and the one whose Cooperstown timeline is most pressing. Beltrán was 70.3 percent on the BBWAA ballot in January — short of the 75 percent needed but tracking toward induction in 2027. He is currently a Special Assistant to Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns. The Manati, Puerto Rico native ranks in the Mets’ top ten in home runs, RBI, runs scored, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and OPS. In 2006, he finished second in the National League in bWAR with 8.2 as the Mets advanced to the NLCS.
New York Mets’ Juan Soto flips his bat after hittin a two-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Beltrán represented Puerto Rico at multiple World Baseball Classics. He was a leader on the 2013 Team Puerto Rico that nearly won the tournament, the squad that established Puerto Rico as one of the WBC’s most dangerous countries for the rest of the decade. He is the most decorated international player to wear a Mets uniform in the franchise’s six decades.
Puerto Rico’s Carlos Beltran, right, highs five with teammates before the start of the World Baseball Classic first round game against Spain in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, March 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Beltrán has remained close to the borough his whole career. In 2009, during a rehab assignment, he played a game with the Brooklyn Cyclones in front of fans who treated it like a major-league appearance.
New York Mets’ Carlos Beltran signs autographs while on a rehab assignment with the Class A Brooklyn Cyclones in a baseball game against the Hudson Valley Renegades at KeySpan Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
In November 2019, he was introduced as the Mets’ manager — a job he never got to start, but a moment that signaled where the franchise was placing him in its long-term plans. He has been an organizational fixture in some form ever since. His number 15 will be retired in a September ceremony at Citi Field that will also serve as his formal Mets Hall of Fame induction.
FILE – New York Mets’ Carlos Beltran smiles during an introductory baseball news conference in New York, Nov. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Three players. Three different threads. One weekend that the franchise, and its fans, get to celebrate together.
The Soto Heater
Juan Soto is on a heater. He hit his 12th home run of the season on Wednesday off Cincinnati’s Andrew Abbott. Six of his last eight hits have been home runs. He has eight home runs in his last 12 games. Only eight National League hitters have more home runs than Soto on the season, and all of them have played in at least nine more games than he has — he missed two and a half weeks in April with a right calf injury. He is hitting .301 / .392 / .594 with a .986 OPS that would lead the National League if he had enough at-bats to qualify.
In his words, he is “trying to do damage.” That has been the Mets offense for the last three weeks. Soto has accounted for nearly half of New York’s RBIs over their last eight games. The reinforcements are coming. Jared Young (Canada) was just activated off the 10-day IL. A.J. Minter is back from the 60-day. Jorge Polanco (Dominican Republic) is on a rehab assignment at Binghamton and could be back next week. Eric Wagaman homered Wednesday after being selected from Syracuse. The shape of the lineup the Marlins are facing this weekend is different from the one they swept eight days ago.
The Marlins Coming In
The Marlins enter Friday with several stories worth following. Otto Lopez (Panama, plays for Team Canada at the WBC) leads the team at .330 — a serviceable shortstop having his best month as a Major Leaguer. Xavier Edwards is hitting .306 with a .386 on-base percentage and the lowest strikeout rate of any starting infielder in the National League. Liam Hicks (Canada) has 11 home runs and 44 RBIs, still third in the National League. Owen Caissie (Canada) drove in both runs in Miami’s 2-1 win over this same Mets team last Friday. Esteury Ruiz (Dominican Republic) tripled in that one. Jakob Marsee (American-born, plays for Team Italy at the WBC) stole his 14th base of the season Tuesday in Toronto. Javier Sanoja (Venezuela) hit his first career grand slam against the Atlanta Braves on May 18. Joe Mack, the 23-year-old No. 4 organizational prospect, is in his rookie season behind the plate and has a pop time good enough that opposing dugouts have noticed.
Eleven Marlins were on 2026 World Baseball Classic rosters. Eury Pérez (Dominican Republic), Sandy Alcántara (Dominican Republic), Heriberto Hernández (Dominican Republic), Lopez, Hicks, Caissie, Ruiz, Marsee, Sanoja, plus two other names on the active roster represent six different countries.
The Mets You Are Seeing (And The Italian Thread)
The Mets carry their own international footprint. Soto (Dominican Republic). Luis Torrens (Venezuela) — likely catching multiple games this weekend. Huascar Brazobán (Dominican Republic) — Team DR alongside Peralta at the WBC. Vidal Bruján (Dominican Republic). Jonah Tong (Canada) — the 23-year-old rookie who threw three scoreless in Miami last Friday. Jonah McLean (Sunday’s starter) carries his own WBC reps. Mark Vientos (Miami-born, plays for Team Nicaragua at the WBC under Dusty Baker). Bo Bichette (West Palm Beach-born, announced he would play for Team Brazil at the WBC but withdrew before the tournament; his brother Dante Jr. played for Brazil in his place). Marcus Semien (Team USA WBC).
Steve Cohen’s posture on this has been clear from day one of his ownership: Mets players are allowed and encouraged to represent their countries at the WBC. That is how a franchise builds international depth in a sport where the talent pipeline has shifted decisively outside the United States over the last twenty years. The 2026 Mets roster has eight current contributors who wore a country’s colors at the tournament in March. That is the legacy Valentine helped author and Beltrán helped represent. World Baseball Network exists to track this.
The Italian thread runs through the building this weekend. Mazzilli is going into the Hall. Brett Baty is a Mets infielder with Italian heritage. Mark Vientos has roots in the same Italian-American baseball tradition that produced Mazzilli a generation ago. And across the diamond, Jakob Marsee (Team Italy at the 2026 WBC) is in center field for Miami. One Mets HOF inductee, one Mets infielder, one current Met from the same heritage line, and one Marlins outfielder repping Italy at the WBC — all in one ballpark on Saturday afternoon.
How To Watch
- Friday May 29 · 7:10 PM ET · Meyer vs. Peralta · Marlins.TV · WPIX · Bobby Valentine Disguise (first 15,000) · Fireworks Night
- Saturday May 30 · 4:10 PM ET · Phillips vs. Scott · Marlins.TV · SNY · Mets Hall of Fame Induction · Mazzilli/Valentine Players Pin (first 15,000)
- Sunday May 31 · 1:40 PM ET · Junk vs. McLean · Marlins.TV · SNY
- Radio: WQAM 104.3 (Miami) · WAQI 710 AM (Spanish) · Audacy Mets Radio WHSQ 880 AM (NY)
- Streaming: MLB.TV · Fubo
The Stakes
The Marlins enter Friday three games ahead of the Mets in the NL East and five games out of the third National League Wild Card. Both clubs are still in the chase. The Mets need to take at least two of three to bank a series win going into June and a road trip through Colorado and Los Angeles. The Marlins, riding a stretch of solid baseball with Meyer pitching the way he is, want to keep stacking wins because every weekend they take from a rival is a weekend that strengthens the front office’s hand at the deadline.
Bobby V is back at Citi Field on Saturday. Beltrán is on the Cooperstown clock. Mazzilli is finally getting his moment. Soto is on a heater. Meyer is undefeated. Two teams still in the conversation in late May, playing three games in front of a fan base getting to celebrate its own history. That is what May 29-31 looks like in Queens.
First pitch Friday is 7:10. See you at the ballpark.
— MT
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