Jose Reyes’s 2018 was less than ideal

Adam Hunger-USA TODAY SportsFollowing a subpar 2017 season, Jose Reyes existed in free agency limbo for a few months until the Mets gave him a one-year deal for $2 million back in January. While a bad season was to be expected out of this version of Reyes, what the Mets got in 2018 was nothing short of a catastrophe.

Over 110 games and 251 plate appearances, Reyes hit .189/.260/.320 with four home runs, 16 RBIs, and five stolen bases. According to wRC+, Reyes was 38% worse than the average hitter in 2018, which is extremely not good. In 2018, 313 players came to the plate at least 250 times, and out of that group, Reyes’s 62 wRC+ ranked 302nd—with hitters like Chris Davis and Sandy Leon…