Working in New York is never easy. The commute alone is draining. For professional athletes in the city, the spotlight shines brightly on all of their mistakes. One vacant job with the New York Mets will continue to have a lot of pressure on it in 2019. That’s the closer role.
Mets fans have a love/hate relationship with the closers of their favorite baseball team. It’s understandable. Even the best closers in the team’s history have come up short in the big moments.
There’s no role in sports with more pressure than that of the closer.