On a characteristically chaotic day — even a win didn’t make it that much better — the Mets did one thing right:
They offered few facts and even fewer opinions on Yoenis Cespedes’ shocking injury at his Port St. Lucie, Fla., ranch. Clearly, they were leaving their options open to see if an avenue existed to get back at least some of the money they owe him.
We don’t know everything the Mets know about what transpired, and the Mets almost certainly don’t know everything that Cespedes knows. And that in itself is telling, for in the two most memorable recent cases of a team successfully getting some money back — the Yankees with Aaron Boone in 2004 and the Mets with Francisco Rodriguez, as documented in the linked story — we knew from the moment the injuries became public that the clubs had strong cases.