As the days and weeks without baseball drag on, we naturally look to the past for our fix. While YouTube highlights and comment-thread arguments are entertaining, our minds naturally drift towards the hypothetical. What might had happened had one play gone differently, one trade been made, one free agent been avoided? In-game changes are a fairly closed loop, but questions of long-term roster construction open many cans of worms.
To occupy our time, let’s entertain those flights of fancy. The rules are fairly simple: We’ll make as few changes as possible and model the Mets’ behavior as faithfully as we can.