PORT ST. LUCIE — Brett Baty may have s❀pent too much time focusing on his good and bad days last season instead of just forgetting about them.
It’s a lesson learned as he looks to show the Mets he’s worthy of serving as the team’s full-time third basemaཧn.
Baty, 24, worked on improving his physical tools over the winter, but also his mindset.&nbs💎p;
He wants to avoid the “r♎oller coaster” he rode🗹 last year.
“It’s just coming to the field and knowing you are the best person on the field every day, knowing that and believing that,” Baty said Thursday following a workoutও at Clover Park. “I just see all these guys come in here and when they come in here the next day, the past day they had whether it was a failure or success they are not thinking about that. They are thinking about what they have to do that night. I have to do a better job with that this year.”
🍷Baty struggled offensively and defensively last season, leaving a giant question mark⛄ at third base as camp begins.
The Mets are also evaluating Mark Vientos at the position, 🦂but the job will likely be Baty’s t♛o lose.
“Competition is great, I think it mak🍸es everybody better,” Baty said. “Any way we can ma𒅌ke this ball club better I am for it.”
Last year ꦰBaty owned a .212/.275/.323 slash line with nine homers and 34 RBIs in 108 games.
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Defen🌺sively, he ranked only in MLB’s 15th percentꦉile at third base, according to Statcast, with minus-four outs above average.
Baty saiꦅd he took struggles at the plate into the fiel🧸d last season.
“The veteran guys are really good at differentiating ⛎the different parts of the game,” Baty said. “They’ll have a really good game offensively and a real bad game defensively, but they are not together at all, so I think I need to learn that level of consistency from them.”
Edwin Diaz threw live batting practice, facing three 🤡batters.♛
It was his first time facing batters since tea🐼ring the patellar tendon in his right knee last March at t💧he World Baseball Classic.
The Mets closer topped out at 96 mph and also displaye⭕🀅d his slider during Thursday’s session.
“I wꦐas pretty pleased,” Diaz said. “This was a big step for us and I can’t wait to keep going forward.”
