Now that the dust has cleared after the major league baseball trade deadline, it’s not surprising that the Mets superteam collapse is being compared with what happened to the Nets back in February.
Both teams dumped superstars — the Mets their two 39-year-old Cy Young Award pitchers in Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, along with a number of others, the Nets their two 30-something NBA champions Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, then more recently Joe Harris and Patty Mills. In return, both teams went for youth, the Mets choosing to bulk up their minor league capital, the Nets going for players like Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson and adding draft picks. (You can’t trade picks in the MLB.) Both…
