April marks the return of baseball, a season of fresh starts and the promise of better days ahead. As a lifelong Mets fan, I’m eager to see what the team from Queens can do this year with the addition of Juan Soto. Yankees fans, of course, are used to expecting a great year; it comes with the territory. But with Steve Cohen at the helm, Mets fans are finally starting to understand what it feels like to head into a season with that same kind of optimism year after year. No matter whom you root for, the start of the season always brings a renewed sense of hope and possibility.