Luke Weaver's Yankees reminder at Mets spring training has to be an elaborate joke

The New York Yankees are arriving on the eve of spring training with a 26-man roster that features 24 men who were active for their 2025 ALDS loss, with the only two departures being Luke Weaver and Devin Williams.

That should light Yankees fans up for multiple reasons. Even if Weaver and Williams were less than ideal, it might be wise to replace them with an eighth inning guy you can trust? And even if things will change again before October, isn't 24 a lot of similar names? As if the dichotomy couldn't get any stranger, Weaver further confused things upon his arrival to Mets camp on Monday.

Oh, did we mention both Weaver and Williams are Mets now? Because both Weaver and Williams are Mets now — though you wouldn't know it from Weaver's equipment.

The Jungle Cat strode into Mets camp with a team-issued Yankees bag on Monday morning, marked with his trademark No. 30. This doesn't mean he's pining for his time with Big Brother. It doesn't mean he's embarking on a silent protest of Steve Cohen. But it is ... pretty weird, right?!

Former Yankees closer Luke Weaver showed up at New York Mets spring training repping the Bronx Bombers

He had to know this was a strange way to encounter a new fanbase he'll be looking to win over. He's a legendary goofball. Odds have to be high that he's kidding, in some way. But what's the punchline?

Maybe the joke is that someone who'd be the Yankees' second-most trusted reliever now lives across town after they failed to contact him even once during free agency? So you might as well reinforce that reality by literally dragging their equipment across town? A gesture implying the lines have further blurred between Yankees and Mets property in the wake of the Juan Soto decision? Or maybe he's still lugging around his Yankees baggage, symbolically and literally?

Or, uh, maybe it's nothing at all. Maybe the Mets just didn't provide anything to Weaver and assumed he'd know better than to show up with anything other than a plain bag. And he didn't do that. Your guess is as good as mine why he believed this was a decision that wouldn't stand out on a day when all desperate baseball fan eyes are on players ending their offseasons and sauntering into their respective complexes.