What Francisco Lindor means to the Mets

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty ImagesThomas Henderson

When Francisco Lindor first got traded here, I, as a part of the minors team here at Amazin’ Avenue, wrote some words on who the Mets dealt to acquire him. To open my thoughts, I wrote: “This one hits different. Francisco Lindor getting traded to the Mets is something that would not and could not—and frankly, did not—happen in the decades of Wilpon ownership. They would not have even been rumored to acquire him, let alone pull the trigger. Naturally, an extension needs to be done here, but I doubt you trade two shortstops and not extend the one you get back.”

If that trade hit differently, then this extension hits in another…