TORONTO — Maybe this Mets-Blue Jays series, with two games earlier at Citi Field and two games this week at Rogers Centre, is more significant than we realized.
Should we call it the Separated At Birth Series?
Behold the similarities:
1) Both teams hit a wall in the late 2000s and started fresh with new general managers. Alex Anthopoulos took over the Blue Jays after 2009 and Sandy Alderson did the same for the Mets after 2010. Anthopoulos traded franchise icon Roy Halladay to the Phillies. Alderson traded the terrific Carlos Beltran to the Giants in 2011 and reigning National League Cy Young Award winner R.