Any turmoil the Mets have gone through in their history pales in comparison to the peril new catcher Wilson Ramos faced and survived early in his major league career.
The Mets’ latest free-agent signing admittedly feared he would be killed when he was kidnapped by four armed men in his hometown of Valencia and held for more than two days in a cabin in the Venezuelan mountains in November 2011, before he was rescued and returned to his family.
“The truth is that I’m happy to be out of the situation,” Ramos told the Washington Post in 2012, several months after the harrowing ordeal had ended.