New York Mets: Michael Conforto, the lone All-Star

New York Mets outfielder Michael Conforto is the lone Mets representative in the Summer Classic. His play needs to boost the Mets out of the bottom.

New York Mets fans are elated that there will be one team member suiting up during the All-Star break.

Michael Conforto will represent the Amazins at the Summer Classic, and it’s no fluke. This season the outfielder is batting .285, with 14 long balls, and 41 runs batted in.

Statistically, Conforto obviously deserves to be at the All-Star game. He deserves the entire honor, but this success has to stem far past the break.

The New York Mets continue to let fans down.

The pitching is struggling through injuries, and the team as a whole is having a tough go at it. From the batters box to the pitchers mound, the Mets are severely underperforming.

Conforto’s success is a glimmer of hope in a rather dull situation in Flushing. His surge after spending a good chunk of 2016 in Triple-A is rather impressive, but more has to come from him.

We can sit here and talk about how great it is that Conforto turned it around, but it’s just a start for now.

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We’ve all seen how great the New York Mets can be. When healthy, their pitching is tops in the league, their bats are producing more than years past, and they have a successful pedigree.

Conforto is just the guy that the success has to build from at this point.

He obviously has the bat to be a Major League stud, and his fielding is right there with it. He now has to grow from young turn around player, to team leader.

There hasn’t been a stalwart voice in the New York Mets locker room, but maybe the newly deemed All-Star, Michael Conforto, is the answer.