"It was a confounding, frustrating season even before we learned it would be a fracture in the Mets' timeline, with stalwarts we'd grown used to shipped off or allowed to depart and their replacements still yet to take shape. One day it will all seem like a logical story; for now it's just baffling. But onward we go, in good times and bad as well as times we're not sure about yet, so it's time to take stock of the season's matriculated Mets."
"(If a player gets a Topps card as a Met, I use it unless it's a truly horrible - Topps was here a decade before there were Mets, so they get to be the card of record. No Mets card by Topps? Then I look for a minor-league card, a non-Topps Mets card, a Topps non-Mets card, or anything else.)"
The season produced confusion and frustration as long-standing Mets were traded or allowed to leave while replacements remained unestablished. The team timeline suffered a visible fracture, leaving outcomes baffling though continuity persists. A personal archive called The Holy Books catalogs a baseball card for every Met in order of big-league arrival, with extra pages for championship rosters, managers, ghosts, and the 1961 Expansion Draft. Card-selection rules prioritize Topps Mets cards, falling back to minor-league, non-Topps, or non-Mets Topps cards when necessary. The process involves scrutinizing new card sets to find better established-player cards, prospect stockpiles, and cards for each new big-league Met. Juan Soto's acquisition felt underwhelming amid enormous expectations.
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