Mets manager Terry Collins was speaking in his pre s conference after Tuesday nights game about reliever Jenrry Mejias 162-game suspension for a second positive test for performance-enhancing drugs when he mentioned that he had informed players before the game because he knew the information was going to get out, and that players do check their phones in their lockers.Not only do players have phones in their lockers, fans have phones in the stands, and at this time of year, all baseball fans are constantly New Orleans Pelicans Jersey checking social media. So, when that the Mets had completed a deal to bring Brewers center fielder Carlos Gomez to Jahlil Okafor Jersey New York for Wilmer Flores and Zack Wheeler, word spread quickly.MORE: | Wheeler is recovering from Tommy John surgery. Flores was the Mets starting shortstop on Wednesday night. Usually, when a player is getting traded, he is removed from the game to protect against injury. The Mets left Flores in a game in which they trailed the Padres by five runs.Maybe the deal was not done, as Fox Sports Ken Rosenthal reported on Twitter: Asked official involved with Gomez trade why Flores is still in game. Reply: No deal is done the entire world has jumped the gun. In fact, that was the case, as Mets general manager Sandy Alderson later told reporters that there was no deal for Gomez, and there will not be one.Even so, the Mets had to know that the world was aware of the reports of Flores a sumed departure. If they didnt have social media, they certainly had the standing ovation that Flores received for no other perceptible reason when he batted in the bottom of the Lonzo Ball Jersey seventh inning. Even without a deal completed, they were still dealing with a human being who deserved better.If not sooner, after that at-bat was Derrick Favors Jersey the time to remove Flores, while Gomez and his soon-to-be former teammates were posting goodbye selfies from the Brewers team plane.Instead, Flores was sent back out into the field for the eighth inning, crying. He finally was removed for pinch hitter Ruben Tejada in the bottom of the ninth.The emotionwas understandable. Flores signed with the Mets out of Venezuela on Aug. 6,2007, his 16th birthday. He turns 24 next week. He has spent one-third of his life in the organization, and in that moment he thought he was heading for another city, an unfamiliar place, a continent away from home.Even if Nikola Mirotic Jersey the is werent dotted and the ts werent cro sed on the deal, there was no good reason for Flores to be on the field, dealing with his emotions in front of not only 24,804 people at the ballpark, but the world on social media that the manager of his team was so acutely aware of just 24 hours earlier.