The Mets have to free themselves from their never-ending Brett Baty-Mark Vientos dance

Source: New York Post

In the dismal days when the Wilpons were deflating the Mets payroll after the revelation of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, the team occupied itself annually with a game of “This is Rubén Tejada’s final year to prove he is an everyday shortstop. ” That final year lasted several seasons, as if amnesia and hope set in each spring. Either due to lack of resources or imagination, the Mets could not come up with a better alternative to what wasn’t working.