No, this wasn’t Yoenis Cespedes arriving (both literally and figuratively) on his white horse as the seconds ticked away toward the 2015 trade deadline, a move that landed the Mets in a World Series. It wasn’t Donn Clendenon arriving a few hours before the deadline of June 15, 1969, the final push the young Mets needed to shock the world a few months later.
There wasn’t that kind of one-man blast-furnace available this time. So David Stearns went another way. He bought bulk. His players, for weeks, have urged him to upgrade the team’s talent, honoring the push they’ve made from the bottom of the National League to a tie for the second wild card entering Tuesday’s game with the Twins at Citi Field.
Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
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