Mets show they can flip the script in a good way

Jacob deGrom and Noah SyndergaardWASHINGTON — Good teams have a knack of figuring stuff out, even the bad stuff. That’s part of the reason they’re good teams in the first place. There are few perfect pathways from March to October, no matter who you are.

The Red Sox won 119 games last year and got a total of 13 plate appearances from Dustin Pedroia, presumed to be a franchise cornerstone. The Dodgers were 16-26 after 42 games and got to the World Series anyway. You go with what you get, and grind through all of it.

The Mets had quite an interesting 48 hours as they closed up shop for the spring. They bused across Florida to play a game in Sarasota on Monday afternoon, then sat on a tarmac for…