With Robinson Cano resting his left quad, an injury suffered due to superfluous hustle, the Mets can momentarily table the issue of how to deal with players (primarily Cano) whose lack of effort hurts the team. For they sure stumbled every which way when it came to Cano’s lost Miami weekend and how to manage it.
Perhaps they should look into their past for guidance.
In his highly entertaining autobiography, “Davey Johnson: My Wild Ride in Baseball and Beyond,” former Mets manager Davey Johnson (how’d you guess?), with his co-author, Erik Sherman, recalled how he handled this situation with his Mets teams.