Mets ownership is getting antsy early in Year 2 of manager Mickey Callaway's tenure. It's worried about another midseason exit from playoff contention.Callaway and new general manager Brodie Van Wagenen heard team chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon's concernsFriday when the three gathered for their regular post-road Max Pircher Jerseys trip meeting."This meeting had a different focus," Callaway told reporters at Citi Field on Friday night. "This meeting was about how can we be better, how can we get going in the right direction.MORE:"It was just more about, 'Hey, what do we have to do to put ourselves in Ben Skowronek Jerseys a better position?'" Callaway said,"because none of us are satisfied with what's been going on to this point."The short answer to those questions is, "Get the hitters going." New York (18-20, 3-6 in May) on Friday after scoring eight runs in the first inning, but its slash line for May is just slightly better than its line for the first 10 days of May 2018:YEARAVGOBPSLGOPSRPG2018.203.253.337.5902.32019.218.278.340.6183.0The eight-spot was a welcome development nonethele s."Everybody took a deep breath after that, like Austin Corbett Jerseys , 'OK, we can still score runs,' because we have," Callaway said.The offense's feeblene s has undermined the team's strong pitching in May (2.64 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 0.95 HR/9). The staff is almost three earned runs better than it was during the first 10 days last May (5.51 ERA).Robinson Cano, Michael Conforto and Wilson Ramos combined for seven hits on Friday. Hot streaks from all three would ease a lot of worries. New York may add utility man Jed Lowrie (knee) to the roster next week. The Mets are betting $20 million over two yearsthat David Edwards Jerseys his 2018 season with the A's (career-high 23home runs, 122 wRC+) was not a distant outlier.Playing the Marlins and Nationals 13 timesthrough May 23 ought to relax people, as well. Miami (10-28), somehow, is worse than it was last year when it lost Troy Reeder Jerseys 98 games. Washington (15-23) is in crisis mode with Trea Turner, Juan Soto, Ryan Zimmerman and Matt Adams all on the injured list and manager DaveMartinez fighting to keep his job.In the end, more production by the veteran hitters and a favorable schedule will be the real reasons for any mid-month surge, not Wilpon's state-the-obvious sitdown.That means Callaway's job security likely won't improve even if his team takes care of Kareem Orr Jerseys busine s. His honeymoon in New York ended around the time the Mets went 5-21 last June. Another month like that, and Callaway will be searchingfor answers as to why he's out of work.
