Seen as next to impossible when news broke Sunday morning that the Mets were “kicking the tires” on RHP Max Scherzer, my plane touched down in Denver at 9:13AM my time. My phone began to erupt with Tweet notifications regarding the Mets and Scherzer, and I believed that there was a strong possibility of the sides reaching an agreement. Flashback to Wednesday when Mets owner Steve Cohen took to Twitter to share his anger regarding Steven Matz and his agent not giving the Mets a chance to up their offer to him, reports began to swirl that the club wasn’t seen as a destination for some big name players and that they didn’t want to come here.
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