Eduardo Escobar may not be Carlos Correa, but the Mets would like to believe he’s better than the .726 OPS he brought to the lineup last season.

Quietly, the veteran third baseman suffered emotionally last year, dealing with multiple family matters Mets officials believe affected his play. Those issues began to resolve later in the season, which coincided with a breakout September that earned Escobar National League Player of the Month honors.

“I could tell there was a lot of stuff going on in his life and you could almost tell on the field when it started turning for him,” manager Buck Showalter said in a phone conversation this week.

Showalter declined to detail what Escobar was working through, but added: “It was tough for him. This guy was in my office and he made me cry a couple of times.”