For the most part, it’s hard to point and laugh at anyone the Mets are planning on playing. There are competent players all around the field, and more than that, there are players who might have something of a future with their current team. But the organization can’t do much to help them out until some of the gigantic contract situations are resolved. It’s a team caught between two eras, but they aren’t doing all that bad, considering.

– Grant Brisbee, SBNation.com.

Not surprisingly, Brisbee puts out the fairest national Mets preview I’ve seen yet, avoiding most of the overblown LOLMets memes and pointing out that seems like the front office knows what it’s doing.