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The Mets' 2016 lineup looks great with Yoenis Cespedes in it

The team has a great pitching staff, but the offense should be very good, too.

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports

The Mets' lineup probably wasn't as bad as people were making it out to be before the team re-signed Yoenis Cespedes, but it looks even better right now. It is tough to keep an entire team healthy at once in any sport, but when the Mets are at full strength, their lineup should look something like this:

Name Pos. 2016 ZiPS wOBA
Curtis Granderson RF .337
David Wright 3B .326
Yoenis Cespedes CF .346
Lucas Duda 1B .357
Michael Conforto LF .333
Travis d'Arnaud C .325
Neil Walker 2B .333
Asdrubal Cabrera SS .319

That last column contains each player's projected wOBA (weighted on-base average) from Dan Szymborski's ZiPS projection system. The metric isn't adjusted for league and park, but for reference, the average major league non-pitcher had a .318 wOBA in 2015. So everyone in the lineup could very well come in near or above that league average mark. And the weakest hitter in that lineup is certainly Cabrera, whose .265/.315/.430 line last year was a bit better than league average by wRC+.