In his first two years with the Mets, Starling Marte has been something of a baseball equivalent of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 2022, Marte was very good as the team’s everyday right fielder before suffering an injury late in the season, but in 2023, he had his worst single season as a major league player by a wide margin.
It would be oversimplifying things to say that the Mets were entirely dependent on Marte over the past two years, even if his 134 wRC+ in 2022 and 76 wRC+ in 2023 were major parts of the team’s 101- and 75-win seasons, respectively.