New regime, new brash attitude, same old disappointment.
For a third straight year, the Mets will begin the second half all but finished in the postseason race, buried this time not so much by injuries as by underwhelming performance.
In his vow to win now and in the future, new general manager Brodie Van Wagenen perhaps crippled both causes with the offseason trade that brought Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz to the Mets and sent prospects Jarred Kelenic and Justin Dunn to Seattle. Cano and Diaz simply have been brutal — two big factors in the team’s 40-50 first half.