No risk, no reward. Aim small, miss small. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Quotes like these surely are dancing in the heads of both the brain trust and the fans of the New York Mets.
The entire fanbase cannot stop asking the following questions …
Do we deal Jacob deGrom for prospects who give us hope we’ll compete in two or three years? Or do we hold on to him and try a lesser deal for a known commodity in hopes we can compete as early as next year? Have Zack Wheeler and Steven Matz finally found it?