Apparently the Mets will indeed tender contracts to Mike Pelfrey and Angel Pagan, so that ends that nonsense. I mean, I guess I should hold off on the celebrating until it happens officially, but it makes so much sense for the moves to happen — as it always has — that it doesn’t seem likely the story will change.

The joke is really on me, then, for spending so much time and energy explaining why the Mets should tender contracts to Pelfrey and Pagan (and maybe on you for reading/fretting) when most likely that was always going to be the case, and when any suggestions to the contrary may have been media-driven storylines-for-the-sake-of-storylines written to fill internet space and sell papers by people covering a team facing basically one major compelling offseason roster decision. And since no one knows where Jose Reyes will end up, and since writing the same damn thing about Reyes every day gets old, attention turns elsewhere.

The only other familiar, biggish names that could be ousted under any broad umbrella of twisted logic were Pelfrey and Pagan, so we read tons of stories of the way the team had soured on the pair and were likely looking for inexpensive upgrades that plainly did not (and still do not) exist.

But of course, maybe that’s just my narrative, and maybe there really was something to all those stories and the Mets just changed their minds. Or maybe — and most likely — there’s plenty of gray area.

The most important thing is that the Mets’ front office is doing the logical thing. It doesn’t really matter how the decision played out in the media as long as the correct one is made in the end. But the lesson, I think, is that moving forward it’s best to view with skepticism any pending illogical decisions being attributed to the team’s clearly reasonable decision-makers.