Mets could regret not making run at Giants’ new GM

Giants' new general manager Farhan ZaidiCARLSBAD, Calif. — Late Wednesday night, not so much “fashionably late” as “it might not have been worth coming at all,” new Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi arrived at the general managers’ meetings. The former Dodgers GM had just been introduced at a news conference hours earlier at AT&T Park.

Nevertheless, Zaidi’s presence here reverberated, symbolically, all the way to Flushing:

The Mets just fell into second place this winter. More to the point, the heat turned up on them and their new general manager, Brodie Van Wagenen.

Maybe Zaidi, who earned a graduate degree at Cal-Berkeley and grew up in the A’s organization, would’ve told…