The Nationals know what the Mets are facing, and offer a template, of sorts, of where the Mets can be soon.
It’s certainly not like the September series between the Mets and Nationals from 2019.
The Nationals kept winning and took the World Series. The Mets missed the playoffs. The Nationals started a rebuild two years later by trading Max Scherzer, Trea Turner and then, in 2022, Juan Soto. The Mets went all-in by adding Scherzer, Justin Verlander and compiling the largest payroll in MLB history.
It wasn’t something the Nationals would’ve expected after defeating the Astros in 2019 and reaching baseball’s pinnacle for the first time in franchise history. Less than three years after helping Washington hoist the World Series trophy, Juan Soto was traded to help accelerate the Nationals’ rebuild.Their return, across a variety of deals, two years later: Josiah Gray , Keibert Ruiz , MacKenzie Gore , CJ Abrams , James Wood , Robert Hassell Kevin Made , DJ Herz .
Sure, Mets general manager Billy Eppler tried to avoid labeling this year’s surrender as a “fire sale.” But when the Scherzer deal stacked with David Robertson, Verlander, Dominic Leone, Tommy Pham and Mark Canha leaving? That’s a sale.The pain of trading themselves out of playoff contention might not feel so bad if Luisangel AcuIt meant that there’d be plenty of losing, just like the Nationals dropping 97 games in 2021 and 107 in 2022. Only having 77 losses with a month to go marks improvement.
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