Steve Cohen and the Mets rebounded quickly from erstwhile ace Jacob deGrom’s defection via free agency, snapping up a future Hall of Famer and a three-time Cy Young award winner on a short-team megadeal worth more than $40 million annually for the second consecutive winter.

Justin Verlander reunites now with former Tigers teammate Max Scherzer in Flushing, forming a two-headed A-list monster atop the Mets’ rotation after deGrom — another owner of multiple Cy Young awards, albeit ONLY two! — bolted for a five-year, $185 million contract last week with the Texas Rangers.

That is quite a Plan B, perhaps among the best fallback options ever.

As I noted Monday on Twitter, the Mets never did land either Justin Upton or B.J. Upton despite past attempts to acquire the brotherly outfielders. But now welcome to New York noted Yankees fan Kate Upton, Verlander’s better half who — as Mets fans surely can appreciate — famously flipped off a Phillies fan during this year’s World Series between Verlander’s Astros and the Mets’ longtime NL East rivals.