The next top prospect that everyone is clamoring for is first baseman Ryan Clifford. Guess what? He, too, hits left handed.

Now if there is a feeling that Brett Baty is STILL the third baseman of the future, well, you guess it…he still will be hitting left handed.

Ronny Mauricio has not yet been discarded as a top “prospect” but, unfortunately, even though he is a switch hitter, he can’t hit right handed and so, in reality, he is more of a lefty hitter.

When Francisco Lindor comes back and is on the field, he is a legitimate switch hitter. However, he will strike fear in anyone from the right side of the plate.

Francisco Alvarez, however, is the one right handed bat who COULD, and SHOULD, strike fear in pitchers. But Alvarez has not progressed into the kind of hitter everyone touted him to be. Would that even make a difference? One right handed bat in the lineup?

Teams already stack a lineup with right handed hitters when a southpaw starts for an opponent. The Mets do that incessantly. And while I understand some platoons, if your players are THAT good and are on the Major League level, then unless you have some unique situation or a special pitcher like a Randy Johnson out there, those lefty batters should be able to get it done. You certainly don’t see a rush to take righty hitters out of a lineup when a right pitcher is throwing, do you?

And given what the Mets lineup appears to be heading toward in the near future, are they going to sit almost their entire starting lineup on the bench every time a lefty starts against them? Yeah, that’s what I want to see.

Just another thing to complain about this organization.