NY is No. 4 in the National League ... in throwing errors

MIAMI — The Mets made three errors on Tuesday. They made three errors in Saturday’s game as well, and also in last Thursday’s game against Miami.

As a team, they’re seventh in the National League in total errors, but fourth in throwing errors, the type that’s reared their ugly heads in recent games.

“I think, seeing plays in the last couple days, a guy will catch the ball and then probably not set his feet right to make a nice throw,” manager Luis Rojas explained. “We’ve gotten some outs [from the bad throws]. I think it was to end the game, [Jonathan Villar] didn’t set his feet right and [Pete Alonso] had to stretch out and find the bag again. We did get the out, but those are the ones I’m talking about.”

The remedy, as it usually is for poor defensive plays, is very simple in Rojas’ eyes.

“Finish the play,” Rojas ordered. “Do everything fundamentally sound. We shouldn’t give anyone a chance. There’s just no room for that. We talk about that on the defensive end. It’s happened so often.”

On Wednesday night in Miami, the Mets will once again roll with their standard infield from the past few weeks. From right to left, they’ll line up Alonso, Javier Baez, Francisco Lindor and Villar. The defensive struggles have hit Villar particularly hard at the hot corner. Ten of his 11 errors have come at third base, six of them on throws.

No throwing for degrom: Jacob degrom did not throw a baseball on Wednesday. This would not be particularly newsworthy if not for the recent revelation that the Mets’ ace has a sprain in his UCL. Since that information became public, every single motion degrom does on a baseball field is subject to heightened scrutiny and speculation. This lack of throwing on Wednesday should be immune to that, though, if you ask his manager.

“It was just a day off from throwing,” Rojas claimed. “No particular reason.”

Degrom’s absence in the rotation has been catastrophic for the Mets, who started getting deposed as National League East frontrunners right around the time he last pitched on July 7. Rojas has been in the damage control business since then, and he continued that in his pregame media availability on Wednesday.