Freddy Peralta completes Mets makeover, Cody Bellinger keeps Yankees status quo

“We like our players,’’ Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said at the winter meetings in December. “That is a fact.”

A month prior, at the GM meetings, Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns struck a different tone regarding his roster. “It’s a recognition that what we did last year wasn’t good enough,” Stearns said, “and running it back with the exact same group wasn’t the right thing to do.”