Whenever Yoenis Cespedes is in the news it’s usually not a very good thing. The New York Mets slugger hasn’t had a single at-bat since mid-2018. Since re-upping with the club after the 2016 campaign he has been practically absent from the field.
On Friday, a new chapter to the Cespedes saga was written. Using Star Wars titles as a reference, this latest news isn’t A New Hope. That’s what we can call 2015. In a year we were hopeful for the Return of the Jedi, it’s shaping up to be much less.