Yeah, they've had some injuries but IMO better than half of the dudes on your list aren't what I'd call impact players on most MLB rosters. They knew about Wright and Wheeler before the season began and Reyes was nothing to count on. There are always teams that suffer injuries and still compete; The Rangers, Dodgers, Cardinals, Red Sox and Giants have all lost more days to the DL than the Mets this season.
The reason the Mets will most likely miss October ball in 2016 has much more to do with the shoddy front office moves in preparation for this season (excluding Cespedes who basically signed himself). You certainly have done an effective job of chronicling the ineptitude of each DeAza at bat or Bastardo pitch, lol. And even though he tonked one tonight, I can't see Jay Bruce's streaky bat making up for what will be some flat out awful defense in the field. And not signing Murph doesn't seem like a great choice too.
Mets fans have to stop bemoaning this myth that they've been hard-done-by in the 2016 season and face the fact: everything went your way after August in the 2015 season (except TC's world series managing, the only time he was really put to the test). 2016 is a simple return to SOP for the Mets in the Wilpon era. You're a better than mediocre team in a great town run by total weeds.
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