If the old baseball adage holds true that sometimes the best trades are the ones you don’t make, consider this corollary that applies to the 2015 New York Mets: Sometimes, the best trades you make are the ones that happen because one you did make falls through.                A convincing argument could be made that the Mets made it to the World Series largely because the July trade that would have sent Wilmer Flores and Noah Syndergaard to the Milwaukee Brewers fell through when the Mets...

The 2014  Mets season saw the arrival the the Grandyman and The Big Sexy, but the biggest impact came from a shortstop-turned-pitcher whose made the most of a May call-up and an unexpected start.                The team’s final record was 79-83, 11 games short of general manager Sandy Alderson’s 90-win prediction, and while it was good enough for a second place tie in a weak National League East, the team still finished nine games out of a wild card spot.                Nevertheless, the...

It’s hard to determine who had a greater impact on the Met’s 2011 season: Sandy Alderson, the newly-hired general manager, or Irving H. Picard, the trustee appointed by a federal judge to recoup money lost by victims of Bernard Madoff’s financial fraud.                That’s because overshadowing whatever Alderson accomplished or tried to accomplish with the Mets on the field – changing the culture, changing the players – was the Sword of Damocles lawsuit seeking $1 billion from Mets owners...