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Inside Jose Reyes’ Mets reunion, and the brief meeting that sealed it

The most critical hour of the 2016 Mets’ season just might have taken place on Manhattan’s Upper East Side … while the team was in Atlanta.

It involved one man in workout clothes, another in characteristically comfortable shorts and a third wearing “a polo shirt and designer jeans,” Jose Reyes, the best-dressed of the trio, recalled Tuesday with a smile.

It brought closure to a thorough process that incorporated both baseball evaluation and public relations, making it the industry’s most controversial acquisition of the season and reconciling a player and team that once were as synonymous as, well, David Wright and the Mets.