The Time has Come for a Post-Season IGT, NYM@MIL, 2024-10-01

[Edgy MD]

Certainly Stanek indeed.



Using the trade deadline to get multiple career guys who could help around the margins and possibly step up to fill bigger needs as they appeared — rather than dropping hot prospects for name-brand guys who you put a huge amount of chips on sure got treated as low-rent thinking by Stearns, but I think it has really played well no matter how far the Mets go.



It may not give you much of a chance to catch lightning in a bottle like Céspedes, but you don't necessarily need that. It gets quality out of quantity, doesn't upset the team dynamic at crunch time, and doesn't leave you spending the next two seasons despairing over the talent you lost.