Let’s wind the clocks back to around this time, one year ago. The New York Mets brought in a new General Manager in Brodie Van Wagenen, who promised to make a lot of big splashed right off the bat.
We had the most active offseason of any year in recent memory, making a big trade for Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz from Seattle, signing Wilson Ramos, Jeurys Familia, Justin Wilson, and Jed Lowrie each to multi-year deals, and also picked up JD Davis from the Astros.