Three themes ran through the New York Mets offseason. Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, and gambles on starting pitchers. Two of the three worked out pretty well. The other is incomplete but mostly more bad than good. With Jose Iglesias fresh in our minds from how he joined the Mets in December of 2023 on a minor league deal, fans were eager to see who’d get pulled into the fray this season and possibly help repeat the kind of magic we saw in 2024.
There is no exact way to mimic the Iglesias firestorm. However, one veteran has tried.