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The Mets are not ready to reassess their goals.

“We can go on a run,” Brandon Nimmo said Sunday when asked about the club’s NL East chances. “We’ve still got time. But it just takes putting it together, playing some good baseball.

“But, no, I don’t think the division is slipping away.”

The Mets began an off-day Monday 5 ½ games behind the Phillies, their largest deficit of the season in a division they led as recently as Aug. 2.

The bad news for the Mets concerns everything going on around the Mets. The good news for the Mets concerns everything that is going on around the National League wild-card race.{ai:summary}Mike Puma’s Sports+ texts offer insider Mets buzz.Nimmo says the team isn’t reassessing goals and can go on a run if they put it together; they’re 5.5 games back, the largest deficit this season in a division they led as recently as Aug. 2.

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The NL East reality that awaits flailing Mets

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