Mets turn the page on disappointing season with trade deadline overhaul complete

CLEVELAND — Six trades later, the Mets makeover is finished. The organization’s final tally as Monday’s 6 p.m. trade deadline passed was seven players jettisoned over five days and 11 prospects imported. If nothing else, president of baseball operations David Stearns was active in overhauling a roster that has been MLB’s most disappointing this season. Such is life for a team that assembled a $380 million payroll for this season but has cratered to a 47-66 record and last place standing in the National League East. Any hopes of a revival were dashed with a plunge into the abyss in late June that forced manager Carlos Mendoza’s firing. It left the Mets as sellers at the trade deadline for the second time in four seasons. “I believe it was the right thing to do given where we are in this sea