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Center field, second base in limbo for Mets in 2017

NEW YORK -- Yoenis Cespedes is about to become the most interesting man in baseball.

Fresh off a 2016 season in which a banged-up Cespedes was their most valuable offensive player, the Mets will spend this winter trying to figure out the mercurial outfielder's next move. Cespedes can opt out of the final two years of his three-year, $75-million contract shortly after the World Series, and he is a strong bet to do so.

Then what? Will the Mets re-sign a player who delivered them to the postseason two years in a row? Will they gamble that at age 31, Cespedes' days as a superstar are just about complete?