When the Mets signed Jose Reyes to a minor league deal back in late June, the team was doing all it could to keep its season alive.
There wasn’t much time for retrospection. The Amazins’ were merely getting by and, considering Reyes was coming off a two-month suspension, the reunion was hardly met with universal praise.
But as the fall and winter months have dragged along, and the offseason has gotten slower and slower, it has finally sunk in that, almost improbably, No. 7 is back in New York after a wildly successful first stint in Queens.