Not all 70-92 teams are hopeless. Consider the one Mickey Callaway inherited last fall.
“When I heard that I was going to interview with the Mets, I was so excited, not just because of the pitching, but because I knew the reason they struggled last year — it was because of injuries,” said Callaway, the Mets’ manager. “I knew if we got this team healthy, we could do something special.”
As every Mets fan knows, that “if” should be capitalized, italicized and presented in blinking neon lights. Injuries nearly sank the Mets in 2016 and capsized them last season, when every day seemed to bring another medical misadventure.