Salty Phillies star: Mets are good, but we’re the better team
But Castellanos has a point: the Mets have been hot, and it doesn’t matter that the Phillies were early-season favorites. New York had the third-worst record in the NL on May 29 when it was 22-33. It finished 89-73 as one of baseball’s best teams and is now one series away from reaching the World Series.