The lack of fundamentals has gotten out of hand.

This is embarrassing:

"Amed Rosario was in the batting cage, an hour before the Mets would take BP on Monday, working on bunting as part of a teaching session that involved three coaches, as well as manager Mickey Callaway.

And much like the baserunning clinic that first-base coach Ruben Amaro conducted last week, as players gathered around him at each base, you couldn’t watch without thinking that players shouldn’t need such basic instruction at the big-league level.

All of which begs the question: what’s going on with the Mets’ player-development system? Aren’t players getting this type of instruction in the minors, particularly in spring training?

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Meanwhile, on Sunday Callaway said he didn’t consider having Dom Smith drop down a bunt in the ninth inning, with the go-ahead run on first and the Dodgers in an over-shift, because the young first baseman had never bunted as a minor-leaguer.

Records show that Smith did bunt once, executing a sacrifice as a Class-A minor leaguer in 2014, and, in truth, with the bunt being de-emphasized as a strategy all around baseball in the last few years, there are surely plenty of former first-round draft picks who haven’t bunted in the minors.

The point, however, is that somebody like Smith should at least be doing bunt drills during spring training as a minor-leaguer, and Backman says he only recalls pitchers being asked to take part in such drills during his years with the Mets."

Dom Smith doesn't know how to bunt?