The New York Mets head into this weekend’s Subway Series against the New York Yankees having lost six straight games and their season is going downhill after an 11- 1 start. With the Mets being 7.5 games behind the Washington Nationals in the NL East and out of a playoff spot, the talk of rebuilding and selling at the trade deadline will get louder and louder with every loss.
In an article with Bob Nightengale from USA Today from earlier this week, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson talked about how a true rebuild might not happen and he talked about how the rebuilds don’t always work:
“I don’t know why it’s become so popular,’’ Alderson says, “maybe it’s the product of the extremist.