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If hope was heat, the signing of Yoenis Cespedes already would have melted away the snow mounds from Winter Storm Jonas.
Unfortunately, the ones the Department of Sanitation trucks haven’t hauled away will be with us for quite some time. Cespedes is but a mere mortal, whose real heat the Mets can expect no sooner than the onset of springtime.
But if it does indeed materialize as it should — and it had better after the Wilpons opened the pocketbook to the tune of $75 million over three years — the fan base can now anticipate a legitimate run at a division title.