By Ryan Chatelain The Mets have had enough injuries to help some doctors upgrade their yachts. Michael Conforto, Travis d’Arnaud and Jay Bruce have been more disappointing than “Batman v Superman.” And Matt Harvey’s season was, to borrow Donald Trump’s favorite word, a “disaster.” It’s easy to fall into the trap of defining the 2016 Mets by their misfortune — and there’s certainly been plenty of that. But doing so ignores one important fact: The Amazins have also been amazingly lucky. If the Mets were indeed historically unfortunate, they would not be sitting where they are now: in position for a National League wild card spot with just a weekend’s worth of games to play.
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Chatelain: Mets Unbelievably Unlucky? That’s Not Quite Accurate
