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.