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Mets rookie's game-changing glove is making waves
As you may have heard by now, Carson Benge's defense is pulchritudinous.
Mets play-by-play broadcaster Gary Cohen used the SAT word to describe Benge’s spectacular ninth-inning grab on Sunday, when he laid out to take an extra-base hit away from the Angels’ Vaughn Grissom.
The 23-year-old Benge certainly seems to be coming into his own after a tough first few weeks in the Majors. For one, Benge’s bat is heating up: He’s hitting .303/.361/.545 in his last nine games, boosting a struggling Mets offense. But it’s his glove, especially after another highlight-reel catch on Monday, that may be most notable.
Carson Benge has shown signs of improvement at the plate
Since hitting a home run against the Twins in late April, Benge has been hitting better.
Arbitrary endpoints in baseball are fun. If you want to make the case for something, it’s usually not hard to do it if you get to pick the start and end dates, which is exactly what’s about to happen here. Since April 23, Carson Benge has hitting much better than he had from Opening Day through April 22.
To be clear, we’re talking about a tiny sample of 36 plate appearances here, but over that span, Benge has hit two home runs, two doubles, and has a .303/.361/.545 line, a 16.7 percent strikeout rate, and a 156 wRC+. For the sake of comparison, he had hit .136/.197/.200 with one home run, one double, a 24.7 percent strikeout rate, and a 23 wRC+ through April 22.
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