By default, Montero likely to get another start Wednesday for Mets

On a night Rafael Montero stepped into the rotation for Noah Syndergaard and again flopped, it certainly did not go unnoticed that Gabriel Ynoa made his Orioles debut and tossed six scoreless innings against the White Sox at Camden Yards.

The Mets sold Ynoa to Baltimore in February, just as they had done with Logan Verrett in November.

The knee-jerk reaction would be to mock the Mets for those sales, making it sound like cheapness prompted them to peddle assets that now would be useful given the decimation to their rotation.

In reality, the Mets needed to clear 40-man roster spots at those points for the re-signings of Fernando Salas and Yoenis Cespedes, and Ynoa and Verrett arguably were the…