Welcome to the ‘2024 Alternate Mets,’ a feature where we look at what could have been if the Mets had signed/acquired rumored players from the past offseason.
When I started this series, I went back through the Amazin’ Avenue posts from last offseason and pulled out any article that linked a player with the Mets in any serious way. I then made a list of all of those players, and sorted them in a number of ways. No matter how I sorted it, however, the biggest bullet the Mets dodged last offseason was not signing right-handed starter Lucas Giolito.