Morning Briefing: Mets’ Offseason Earning National Praise

Good morning, Mets fans! Hope everyone affected by the storms made out okay.

The dust has settled (I think) on the Mets’ offseason. And after all the moves, Anthony Castrovince of MLB.com thinks the Mets are the National League team most likely to beat the Dodgers in the playoffs this year.

He likes the defense up the middle, the Freddy Peralta–Nolan McLean one-two punch and notes that the Mets are third in FanGraphs’ projected team WAR (46.8), trailing only those pesky Dodgers (54.4) and the Yankees (47.7). For the record...