By now you've most likely read at least one article about the ongoing
Manti Te'o saga. Hearing about this prompted me to do some digging into the Mets archives and what I've uncovered is shocking but not necessarily surprising. Apparently, the Mets were either the perpetrators or victims of a similar hoax as recently as the 2011 season.
A check of the Mets record books shows that from 2008 - 2011 the team employed a player named Nick Evans. A check of
Baseball Reference shows that this "Nick Evans" even compiled some statistics over that time period. There's just one problem. No one in or around the Mets organization has ever seen this person.
