Over the last several days, new details concerning New York Giants' kicker Josh Brown's history of domestic abuse have reminded us how sports teams (and society as a whole) have a long way to go before they approach these situations with the appropriate seriousness. In case we needed another reminder, the New York Mets are here to assist.

The Mets intend to exercise infielder Jose Reyes's club option for the 2017 season, according to Jon Heyman. If you didn't realize Reyes had a club option, you aren't alone. That nugget was reported at the time of the original signing, however, it was swept aside by the bigger issues at hand -- like remembering why Reyes was suspended for 51 games in the first place:

His wife told responding officers that Reyes grabbed her off the bed and shoved her. Sources say she also told police that he grabbed her throat and shoved her into the sliding glass balcony door.

Once the suspension was over, the Colorado Rockies released Reyes. It's not enough to say his poor play the previous season precipitated that move. We can read between the lines. (We also know that Trevor Story's emergence was probably the one thing stopping Reyes from returning as a regular in the Colorado lineup.) And, because Reyes was released, the Mets had to pay him only the prorated league minimum when they signed him a few days later -- the Rockies were on the hook for his actual salary, and will continue to be, while the Mets pay him the league minimum once again in 2017.

Reyes then appeared in 60 games for the Mets, hitting .267/.326/.443 (a 104 OPS+) while primarily playing third base. From a production standpoint, he was a fine, necessary stand-in for the injured David Wright. From every other standpoint? The entire thing was gross. It's getting grosser, since the Mets will continue to benefit from Reyes's arrest and subsequent suspension by way of the aforementioned option.

You seldom, if ever see released veterans sign deals with club options tacked on. That's because those players are usually released for unsatisfactory production. Yet in Reyes's case, the Mets essentially leveraged his arrest and suspension against him to their own gain.

You might believe in second chances -- conversely, you might believe that second chances must be earned, and that Reyes did nothing to earn his -- but there's no other way to view this: the Mets are taking advantage of Reyes allegedly grabbing his wife by her throat and slamming her into a glass door.

That's repugnant, and it speaks to the larger problems at play -- with baseball, with sports, and with society -- when it comes to how we handle domestic abuse.