A dream candidate for any team in the 1990s, it was in December of 1999 when Ken Griffey Jr. almost came to the Mets.
What’s the biggest New York Mets trade that never was? Among the known biggies, there was the December of 1999 deal which would’ve sent Ken Griffey Jr. to Queens.
Now the stuff of lore, it was a mid-December attempt to add a generational talent to a Mets team clearly on the rise. They made the postseason months earlier.