3 morbid Mets offseason scenarios to keep you up tonight

2) The Mets don’t end up with one of the big aces

There are a lot of really good pitchers out there for the Mets to sign. When it comes to the word ace, I’d classify Corbin Burnes, Blake Snell, and Max Fried fitting this description. There are some other good choices as well. Nathan Eovaldi, Jack Flaherty, and trade candidate Garrett Crochet all look satisfying as number one guys.

What if the Mets don’t land any? All they do, instead, is re-sign Sean Manaea to be their number one guy? Look into a crystal ball and you’ll see Mets fans with a “cope” take on how he’s better than a lot of those guys anyway.

The offseason attack on the pitching market won’t so much be about the best pitcher the Mets can land as much as it will focus on the quality of every arm they do sign. If Manaea is paired with someone else with a lot to offer, maybe we can sleep at night even without a $100 million pitcher on the roster.

It’s far more acceptable for the Mets to miss out on one of these top flight pitchers if Soto is wearing orange and blue next year. Compile both of these together and we have a disaster on our hands. This is an offseason where the Mets must come away raising victory flags.