In the Mets’ current world, Wilmer Flores doesn’t kill them at shortstop, David Wright and Curtis Granderson bounce back, Lucas Duda and Jacob deGrom don’t regress, Travis d’Arnaud and Juan Lagares take another step forward, Steve Matz and Noah Syndergaard break through, Matt Harvey is 2013 Matt Harvey, the lack of a qualified lefty reliever proves inconsequential and the pen back end of Vic Black, Jeurys Familia, Jenrry Mejia and ultimately Bobby Parnell is valuable, not volatile.
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Two years ago Joel Sherman and Ken Davidoff demanded that the Mets sign Michael Bourn. How’d that work out?
Last year they demanded that the Mets sign Stephen Drew. How’d that work out?
I’m not defending Sandy, but a lot of the available free agents would have been disasters for the Mets.