Mets’ Beltran-Van Wagenen duo joins shaky GM/coaching scene

Well, we have a new GM/coach combo in town, and time will tell if the Brodie Van Wagenen/Carlos Beltran partnership will bring joy, angst or something else to Mets fans.

So this is as good a time as any to rank what those partnerships look like across the landscape of New York sports. Spoiler alert: It’s mostly not pretty, and there is something of a low bar that Van-Beltran will have to live up (or down) to …

1. Lou Lamoriello/Barry Trotz, Islanders

In case you wondered if last season was a fluke, it was not. Sometimes it feels as if figuring out who will be good as the jobs of GM and coach seems as random as a lottery. And sometimes it just makes sense: Lamoriello is among the greatest…