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A month removed from irrelevance, the Mets are as relevant as they’ve been in years

One month ago today, Mets fans were waking up feeling refreshed and excited. It had little to do with the team’s 2019 season on a larger level, but Pete Alonso had just won the home run derby and done so in such a way that it was hard not to be excited. It was as individual an achievement as there can be in the game of baseball, but Mets fans are no strangers to the consolation prizes that are great individual accomplishments by players on bad Mets teams. Jacob deGrom and R.