Zack Wheeler landing on the DL was just punctuation on an epitaph long written on the 2017 Mets. A season with so much promise so quickly devolved into three months of injury and ineptitude.
And it makes you wonder: Has the window already slammed shut on this run that seemed endless in 2015? A starting staff that once had no ceiling, the potential to trot out five aces, is left with Jacob deGrom. Two years ago, the Mets were in the World Series, with an endless line of longhairs flowing from those blue caps, on the doorstep of a dynasty.