Three players who came to the Mets with a lot of hype and delivered. Two who had the opposite results.
How does a major league team change their fortune? In their history, the New York Mets have turned to trades for some uplifting. Free agency is a relatively new way to build a championship ball club. It didn’t come around until the late 1970s and even through much of the 1980s, star players would change uniforms based more on trades than hitting the open market.