CLEVELAND — The possibility of no longer being a Met, the team he had joined out of high school just months earlier, struck Jarred Kelenic last fall as he dined at a Port St. Lucie restaurant.
“I looked up at the TV, and my name was up there as a rumor,” the outfielder, now in the Mariners system, said Sunday at Progressive Field. “And I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? Is anyone else seeing this?’ ”
Half a year later, Kelenic can rest assured: Everyone is seeing this. Everyone is seeing all of this.
Of all the indignities that have befallen the Mets since they foolishly decided to hire agent Brodie Van Wagenen as their general manager, the meteoric rise of Kelenic, who will turn 20 next week, might top the chart — no small feat.