He has done everything, been everything, for the Mets for five months. The Mets were gasping the final Monday of the season, he hit a two-run, ninth-inning homer as close to CPR as the sport allows. The Mets abandoned runner after runner on the bases with a chance to chase the Phillies on Wednesday;

That can mean a host of things: fashioning a new pitch, steadying mechanics, out-scheming the opposition, solving for what the opponent is trying to do before they do it, and so on. It ought to go without writing that every player and every team has to make some kind of adjustments throughout the season.

It has been quite an adventure since. The Mets have had three managers and three heads of baseball operations in Lindor’s four seasons. They won 101 games in 2022 but finished second to the Braves in a tiebreaker and promptly lost in the wild-card round.