Francisco Lindor has been the engine of the New York Mets' offense lately, and the numbers back it up.
The 32-year-old switch-hitting shortstop has nine home runs and 51 hits this season, pushing his career totals to 288 home runs and 1,715 hits. Those numbers trace back to when the Cleveland Indians drafted him in the first round of the 2011 MLB Draft.
Lindor overcame a slow start. In April, he hit safely in 23 of 27 games, building the kind of contact consistency that changes a lineup's rhythm. Since the All-Star break, he has recorded three three-hit games over his last 10 contests.
His best single game came against the Atlanta Braves, when he homered twice, tripled and drove in six runs in a 14-3 Mets victory.
He has also delivered when the game is on the line. On April 18, Lindor hit a walk-off home run in the ninth inning against St. Louis—his third career walk-off homer and his first since Aug. 8, 2018, when he hit one for Cleveland. On April 5, he lined a walk-off sacrifice fly against Toronto.
From April 20-21, Lindor hit leadoff home runs in consecutive games. Only Kaz Matsui in 2004 and Curtis Granderson in 2017 had done that in Mets history.
On May 30, he went 3-for-4 and homered from both sides of the plate, the kind of performance that makes him a problem for any pitching staff regardless of handedness.
The one honest caveat: his.228 batting average sits well below his career mark of.272, and hitting 30 home runs for a fourth consecutive year would require a serious finishing kick through a season where he has played just 50 games. The power and the clutch hits are real—the average still needs work.
