If one wants to re-litigate the Mets career of James McCann up to this point, the best way to do that would be to read three articles that our own David Capobianco wrote over the course of ten months after the former Tigers and White Sox catcher signed with the team in December 2020.
The first one, written shortly after the initial signing, captures the cautious optimism that a lot of us—and especially the Mets’ front office—felt. We hoped that the improvements he’d made in the 2019 and 2020 seasons might be fully sustainable, and that the Mets might finally have found themselves a suitable catcher after struggling mightily to fill the position for so many years.