A surreal night at Citi Field ended with Wilmer Flores’s eyes still puffy from wiping away tears, but also still a member of the Mets.
Midway through the Mets’ 7-3 loss to the San Diego Padres on Wednesday, reports surfaced that the club had traded Flores and Zack Wheeler to the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Carlos Gomez. The terms of the deal were then quickly posted online by major news organizations, including The New York Times, which confirmed the trade with a high-ranking baseball executive with direct knowledge of the talks between the two teams.