The stars were expected to shine, but were the spare parts supposed to have so much glitter?
As the Mets prepare to play a National League wild-card game against the Giants on Wednesday at Citi Field, it’s still unfathomable to many that a largely reinvented team from spring training has reached this point.
Forget for a minute general manager Sandy Alderson’s higher-profile in-season acquisitions, such as Jose Reyes and Jay Bruce, but the genius might be in the details, a collection that includes recently unearthed gems Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman, in addition to journeymen James Loney, Kelly Johnson and Rene Rivera and undrafted utilityman T.