When Max Scherzer signed last November, the Mets were sitting calm, cool and collected at the blackjack table.
They had been dealt a pair of aces – first Jacob deGrom, now Scherzer — and a postseason run felt very possible. The Scherzer addition gave them their best preseason chance at a World Series in over a decade.
So here we are in early June. The Mets are sitting pretty at 37-19, eight games ahead of the Braves in a surprisingly-uncompetitive National League East. And it’s been a blast witnessing the deGrom-Scherzer one-two punch two out of every five days, right?