On Wednesday night, the Mets finally pulled off a major deal, sending Wilmer Flores and Zack Wheeler to the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for the highly regarded center fielder Carlos Gomez. Except, it turned out, that they didn’t.

In what will go down as one of the more surreal nights in the history of the Mets, who have had many strange things happen to them in their 53 years of existence, a deal that was widely, if briefly, reported by various news organizations, including The New York Times, collapsed after it had already been confirmed by various people in baseball, including a high-ranking team executive who spoke to The Times.

Baseball deals are not considered official until any medical issues concerning the players involved have been reviewed by the teams making the trade. Normally, that is a formality but in this instance questions were apparently raised that caused either the Mets or Brewers to ultimately back out of the deal.