If you spent this entire offseason only listening to the things the Mets’ front office had said about their roster going into the 2019 season, you’d think there were backup plans upon backup plans, all of which would be good enough to keep the team in contention for at least a Wild Card spot throughout the season.
New general manager Brodie Van Wagenen has talked up depth, whether he’s used that exact word or just alluded to it, consistently since he started in the role. Among other things, he’s said that his goal was to eliminate ifs—the inevitable things that go wrong for any major league team in the course of the season and test an organization’s depth.