There have been people considered New York Mets killers before. Chipper Jones, Chase Utley, and Manuel Margot (yes, Margot, look it up, it’s crazy) come to mind as just a few. However, none of them compare to Paul Sterling DeJong.
DeJong is a rather unremarkable baseball player. His best season came in his rookie year in 2017, and he’s been on a steady downhill since.
He’s not bad — his 102 OPS+ makes him an ever so slightly above-average hitter for his career — but he’s just nothing special.
Yet, somehow, there has been no one better at the plate when facing the Mets than DeJong in nearly six decades.
Paul DeJong is THE Mets killer.
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