Brodie Van Wagenen arrived at the general manager’s meetings last November as a rookie GM only one week into his job with the Mets, after spending his career as an agent.
At that point, he still hadn’t hired top assistants Allard Baird and Adam Guttridge and was still trying to figure out how front-office holdovers from the last regime — Omar Minaya, J.P. Ricciardi and John Ricco — would fit into the equation.
The Mets were disjointed, and that might have played into an offseason by Van Wagenen that produced more misses than hits and possibly crippled the organization’s future with the deal that sent Jarred Kelenic and Justin Dunn to the Mariners for Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz.