No more quick fixes for the Mets.
No more five-step plans.
Not from here, anyway. For that’s what’s so confounding about this team, right? In myriad cases over the past two decades — think the trades for Mike Piazza (1998) and Johan Santana (2008) and the long-term commitments to both, the hiring of Sandy Alderson (2010) and two re-signings of Yoenis Cespedes (both in 2016) — they have done exactly what the masses demanded. Yet here they are, once again, their collective asses back in the jackpot.
The Mets appear to be a broken organization, their whole less than the sum of their parts.