Looking at a team’s list of injuries and wondering what could have been is generally a bad idea. Wishing something hadn’t happened doesn’t change reality, nor does it effectively address what could happen in the future, though it could make one feel better in the moment. The best-case scenario for this exercise is feeling less bad about a disappointing season.
But in some cases, it can be useful, like in refuting knee-jerk opinions and reactionary takes. There’s a common sentiment among Mets fans right now that the team wasn’t constructed well enough from the start to compete for a title, and while that’s not necessarily wrong, it disregards the terrible injury luck the Mets suffered throughout the 2021 season.