It felt for a while that, for as much as the New York Mets wanted to trade Jeff McNeil, no one really wanted to step up to the plate and be their dance partner, at least until the dust settled on higher-upside options.
The fact that they moved him now, with higher-end options like Ketel Marte and Brendan Donovan still on the board, is a minor miracle. In the deal, the Mets did about as well as one could have expected, even though it cost them a bit of cash to pry away a lottery ticket.