Several times this season, the Mets have looked cooked. On multiple occasions, Todd Frazier’s time with the team appeared to be coming to an end.
The Mets would blow winnable games, flirting with irrelevance. The veteran third baseman from New Jersey would go weeks without meaningful offensive production, drawing calls for his benching.
And, yet, here they both are, still playing significant baseball the second week of September, very much alive in the NL wild-card race. In many ways, these Mets and Frazier are mirror images of one another. Maddeningly inconsistent but unwilling to let this roller-coaster season go, producing unlikely moments of joy.