With the Mets injuries, it’s easy to blame the lack of offense on the Mets supposed depth. It’s true. The Mets backups have been dreadful:

• Kevin Plawecki and Rene Rivera have combined to hit .194/.291/.302 since Travis d’Arnaud played his last game on April 25th.
• Eric Campbell, Wilmer Flores, and James Loney have combined to hit .197/.231/.328 since Lucas Duda played his last game on May 20th.
• Flores and Ty Kelly have combined to hit .216/.310/.243 since David Wright played his last game on May 27th

These players haven’t done their jobs, and they have hurt the Mets. However, while the Kellys and the Campbells of the world get the blame for hitting the way you reasonably anticipate them to hit, the regulars who haven’t been hitting have not faced the same scrutiny.  In fact, the Mets right now have five regulars still in the lineup and four of them are just flat out not producing:

• Asdrubal Cabrera – Since April 27th, Cabrera is hitting .227/.278/.355 with only 10 extra base hits in 151 plate appearances.  Over that stretch, he is striking out in 23.8% of his plate appearances.
• Michael Conforto – Since May 1st, in what is now being infamously referenced as the Madison Bumgarner Effect, Conforto has hit .160/.224/.311 while striking out in 31% of his plate appearances.  He only has seven extra base hits over this stretch.  Terry Collins once had concerns with him lefties.  Right now, Conforto isn’t hitting anybody.
• Yoenis Cespedes – Since May 25th, Cespedes is hitting .086/.132/.114 with no homeruns while striking out 34.2% of the time.  He is once again dealing with a hip issue, and he is clearly frustrated saying he is “a little lost at the plate right now.” (ESPN).
• Curtis Granderson – Since April 30th, Granderson is hitting .180/.269/.375 while striking out 28.3% of the time.  His problems have been analyzed before show he’s hitting the ball on the ground more and it getting beaten by the shift.  So far, Granderson is not making the necessary adjustments.

Then again, no Met is making the necessary adjustments right now.  The end result is a putrid offense that is the worst offense in the major leagues.  According to Baseball Tonight, since May 12th, the Mets are the last in the majors in runs per game (2.8), OBP (.282), and strikeout rate (28%).  The team is also second to last in slugging (.354).  These numbers would look a whole lot worse if Neil Walker wasn’t hitting.

Overall, this isn’t the July 2015 Mets that had Campbell and John Mayberry hitting in the middle of the lineup.  There are legitimate hitters in this lineup who just aren’t hitting.  We can all analyze who the Mets should get to be their possible long term solutions at catcher, first, and third in the event any of those injured players aren’t able to return.  However, the simple truth of the matter is that unless the players currently here start hitting it’s not going to matter if the Mets make another move at the deadline.