As the first decade of the 2000s drew to a close, the New York Mets were looking ahead to big things. The 2009 season had been a bad season, but things were going to turn around. David Wright and Jose Reyes were going to carry the Mets back to big things in 2010. Jason Bay and Johan Santana were going to help. They also had Luís Castillo, Carlos Beltrán and Jeff Francoeur, so… things were looking up.
Oh, how far we’ve come.
So how did we get from closing day 2009, a Nelson Figueroa complete-game shutout against the Houston Astros, to the present?