Mets Expose the Limits of Blank-Check Baseball
Given the Mets’ humiliating collapse over the last month which saw a team that once held a 10.5-game division lead over the defending champion Braves dominated by an 89-win team on national television, it’s hard to think of the 2022 season as one in which nearly everything for the Mets went right. And yet, on closer inspection, absent two baffling weekends in Atlanta and Queens, this year’s team...
