Yes, you read that right. Every time we think the Mets can’t outdo themselves in feats of absurdity, they do so. More than seven months after news broke that Yoenis Cespedes suffered an ankle fracture after a “violent fall” at his Florida ranch, we have finally learned the details behind the incident, which were shrouded in mystery through a resettlement process that resulted in a significant reduction in Cespedes’ base pay for 2019 and 2020.
At the time of the incident, reports immediately surfaced that the injury was not horse-related, which certainly raised more questions than it answered.