The Mets’ offense gets a chance to wake up on Wednesday against a familiar face.
Carlos Carrasco, who spent three years in Queens from 2021-23, will take the mound for the Braves amid perhaps the worst season of his 16-year big league career.
The 38-year-old right-hander has a 6.18 ERA in 10 games (eight starts) this season, and he’s not fooling any hitters at all.
Batters are hitting .302/.350/.527 against Carrasco with a 10.6 percent barrel rate and a 39.7 percent hard-hit rate.
Unsurprisingly, Carrasco has struggled with the long ball.
He’s given up nine home runs across 43 ⅔ innings, or 1.5 allowed per nine innings on the mound.
It’s a trend that’s plagued the veteran in recent years.
Carrasco’s 1.74 homers allowed per nine innings since 2023 are the fourth-highest in baseball among pitchers with at least 200 innings pitched over that period.
I’m targeting Juan Soto to have a big game against the struggling Carrasco.
Soto snapped his power drought last week, hitting a home run in three straight games before logging another two-hit game on Sunday.
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He’s already homered off Carrasco in the past, hitting a three-run dinger off of him in 2021 with the Nationals.
Let’s see if Soto can help get the Mets back in the win column for the first time in over a week.
The plays: Juan Soto to hit a home run (+250, FanDuel) and to have more than 1.5 total bases (-105)
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