The Hot Stove schedule features more deadlines than a small-town library, and the Mets have one all to themselves.
With the help of Major League Baseball, the Mets are working with their insurance company to try to come to a settlement on the $27 million they still owe the medically unable to play David Wright, an industry source said. It would behoove the Mets greatly, for both baseball reasons and public-relations reasons, to get this done by Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, at which point clubs must finalize their rosters in anticipation of the Rule 5 draft on Dec.