Almost two full years have passed since the New York Mets boldly traded future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer to the Texas Rangers ahead of the 2023 MLB trade deadline. The team executed multiple moves to signal for the first time since 2018 that they had no intention of contending for a playoff spot. The irony is that in many of those years the Mets were trade deadline buyers only to fall short of the playoffs altogether.
Scherzer was sent to the Rangers in a creative deal which had the Mets paying all of his $43.33 million in 2023 and another $20.