The Mets’ bench could look very different if one experiment becomes a plan.
The New York Mets can’t keep doing the Luisangel Acuña thing halfway.
Because right now, he’s in the worst possible baseball limbo: too good an athlete to stash, too shaky a bat to trust, and too boxed in defensively to matter unless you manufacture a role for him. If Acuña is going to be on the roster in 2026, the Mets will need to stop treating him like a luxury pinch-runner who occasionally puts on an infielder’s glove.