It does help their pitchers 81 times a year, however.
If the Mets knew that there was no way they were going to sign Reyes at the trade deadline, they should've traded him then. We got Zach Wheeler for Beltran, imagine who we could've gotten for Reyes. There worst thing we could've done was kept him for another 2 months, knowing he wasn't going to sign, and then get nothing for him.