Sometime in the not-too-distant future, the Mets will presumably look a whole lot different than they do right now. The Wilpons will fade into the background as they finalize the sale of the majority stake of the team to Steve Cohen, but for now, everything that’s been reported about this offseason still feels one hundred percent like the Wilpon Mets. And that leaves things feeling a bit underwhelming as the winter meetings—baseball’s most-hyped gathering of the offseason—get underway in San Diego.
Thus far, the offseason has been fairly quiet. The Mets traded for center fielder Jake Marisnick, who had spent the past several years with the Astros and fulfills their desire for a strong defender in center who is a right-handed hitter.