After one of the most devastating collapses in recent memory, falling from a 5 1/2-game lead in the National League East with the best record in either league on June 12, to 13 games behind the Philadelphia Phillies and out of the playoffs altogether on the last day of the season, the New York Mets are looking to do more than simply fine-tune their roster.

But a fine-tuning move is what they reportedly made on Monday, the first full day of baseball's annual Winter Meetings, when, in their first transaction of the meetings, they agreed to sign a veteran reliever whose career highlight came in 2016 when he was a member of the Chicago Cubs team that won the first World Series for the beloved franchise in 108 years .

Carl Edwards Jr. pitched four years for the Cubs at the outset of h

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