It’s amazing what can change in a year. Fresh off of back-to-back playoff appearances, the New York Mets were seen as a playoff team entering 2017. And why shouldn’t they have been? They returned largely the same group that miraculously won the National League pennant in 2015 and hosted the NL Wild Card game in 2016.
After 2017 ended up being a full-scale meltdown, fans were left hurt and demoralized. The bad news is that nothing short of a winning season and postseason berth will make it any better. Personally speaking, I’d really like to have something else to write about than the unprecedented injury wave that caused the Mets to implode.