Wasn’t this the exact dynamic Steve Cohen was supposed to change?

All too often under the Wilpons, July 31 was the effective last day of the season for the Mets — or at least the last day in which they did anything relevant.

Trade deadline week is also the week in which you can put a final stamp on a failure of a season, and that is the route the Mets have gone down by putting up a “For Sale” sign that so far has yielded deals for David Robertson and Max Scherzer.

Right now, these look like the same Mets who signed Jason Bay, who never got to the playoffs with Johan Santana, who failed to capitalize on a quintet of young arms with All-Star potential after riding them to the 2015 pennant.