Trade Deadline

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Will Leitch had good things to say about the Mets, including the team in his ranking of who did best.

4. Mets It is sort of remarkable how quickly we have collectively adjusted to the Mets making smart, prudent, small-scale moves. For all the bluster from the ownership box, they are operating like a team that knows it is good enough to compete this year without blowing up everything in the future. The Mets needed a left-handed bat, so they got Jesse Winker. They needed some rotation depth, so they got Paul Blackburn. They needed bullpen arms, so they got … a whole bunch of them. And they didn't give up anything they will miss. Even better: The Braves, the team they're chasing in the NL East and the Wild Card, didn't do much other than try to make it 2021 again by science or magic. The Mets keep doing smart things. Eventually it'll stop being surprising.

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As Branch Rickey said, "Luck is the residue of design."

And it seems that Stearns has the plan to get luck on our side.

But every good plan has a contingency plan (Project Management 101) and I think he was blind sided by the second Senga injury.

Later