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I'm not sure I understand it from the Braves's point of view, though.

they get a pitcher with significant upside who is under team control.  they weren't going to re-sign Heyward (free agent after 2015) unless they paid him market money, which could be in the $150m range.

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the Mets were an average-to-teenybit-above average (NL) offensive team last year.(1)  they're not a year away.  if everything from last year holds and you add 4 wins for Harvey and 3 for David Wright regressing back to career norms you have a team holding at a true-talent level of 88 or 89 wins, which is as good or better than both teams that played in the World Series last year.


(1) this is a bit of artistic license.  the team OPS+ was 93, but that was dragged down by historically bad pitcher-offense; position player OPS+ was 101.

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Just their true window opens in 2016 in my opinion.

that has more to do with the Nats poised to get worse after 2015 than the Mets necessarily getting better.