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Is It Time to Start Thinking About Trading Jose Reyes?

The Mets took a 4-0 lead against the Marlins last night and then promptly lost 11-4, not that anyone at this point is counting. The biggest news of the night was Jose Reyes leaving with an “aggravated oblique,” and he’ll sit out a few days, maybe a week, maybe even longer, considering there’s obviously no reason to push him to come back. Reyes’s injury led to the larger, depressing question: Should the Mets trade him this off-season? That might seem crazy — the team always looks its scariest when Reyes is on — but Reyes hasn’t been right for a couple of seasons now, he’s already 27 years old, and his contract is manageable and reasonable. The Mets might never get a better deal than they would this summer. Still: This is Jose Reyes, and it’s hard to find a starting shortstop, particularly one who reaches the occasional heights of Reyes. Mostly: Remember how recently it was that Reyes and David Wright were the impossibly young, impossibly talented, limitless future? The present and past got here awfully fast.

Is It Time to Start Thinking About Trading Jose Reyes?