The Mets re-signed Lovelady, and it feels like the most “baseball reasons” move possible.
If you were building a “Mets offseason bingo card” in late October, I’m pretty sure “Richard Lovelady returns as the first major-league signing” wasn’t even in the free space. And yet… here we are.
The Mets brought back Lovelady, and the early reaction from fans would’ve been predictable: That’s it? Not because Lovelady is some villain, but because this is the kind of move that feels like it belongs in the “minor transactions” paragraph at the bottom of a newsletter.