Listen, I’m not going to beat around the bush and tell you that the Mets trading for Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco yesterday wasn’t bad for the Phillies. It was bad. One does not like to see their division rivals, the team that the fanbase probably hates the most, get markedly better, probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 7-8 wins better. And to be sure, there was a lot of doomsaying and “sky is falling” commiseration on social media yesterday once people found out that one of the five best players in the game will now be facing Philadelphia at least 18-20 times next year.
The Mets trading for Lindor doesn’t signal the end of the Phillies
