There’s a saying in baseball that playing time seems to work itself out. That sure is true in Queens at the moment.

Jeff McNeil swats a three-run home run just over the right-field fence, opening the scoring for the Mets 3-0 in the bottom of the 1st inning

Mauricio, Brett Baty, and Luisangel Acuña are fighting for one full starting spot – third base – and partial shares of two others – second base and designated hitter. Jeff McNeil splits time between second and outfield while Starling Marte starts at DH against lefties and has hit well there of late.

For as resume-boosting as his batting title was in 2022, Jeff McNeil had been having issues shaking off the aftereffects. Making his name through the New York Mets organization as an aggressive, grip-it-and-rip-it type of hitter,

Jeff McNeil talked about his walk-off single in the Mets' win over the Nationals on Tuesday, and how he continues to adjust on the fly at the plate this season during his recent hot stretch.

When Jeff McNeil won the Major League batting title in 2022, it was the signature achievement of a sterling career to that point. There is no world in which he would ever wish to take that back. Yet b