BOSTON — Pairing future Hall of Famers Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer made a lot of sense at one time. The Mets have the desire, this being Year 3 of the three-to-five-year World Series prediction. And of course, they have the moolah (Steve Cohen probably has that much loot in the console between car seats).

Now, four months into their Verlander-Scherzer reunion, folks are suggesting that trading the pair also makes sense. Not to me, it doesn’t.

This idea is only in the speculation stage as there’s no evidence yet this is a serious consideration for the Mets, despite being seven games under .500, 7 ¹/₂ games out of the wild card after losing 6-1 to the Red Sox Sunday night and perhaps trending toward a sale. Although fairly, any sell-off that doesn’t include the co-aces and is instead highlighted by relievers isn’t exactly a headline-grabber or game-changer.

Anyway, Max Scherzer’s agent Scott Boras said the Mets haven’t yet inquired about Scherzer’s willingness to accept a trade, and didn’t sound like he expected them to, and Justin Verlander said a few days ago he hadn’t been approached either (He politely declined to discuss it Sunday after generously providing much time on the subject during the week).

In that interview with The Post, Verlander certainly didn’t sound like a man who wants out.

“I enjoy it here. I want to be here,” Verlander told The Post. “I’m a New York Met. I signed here to win a championship here. I want to leave a legacy here. That’s why I signed up here. Until that’s put on my plate, if it’s ever put on my plate, I don’t think about that stuff.”

Scherzer was in no mood to discuss such speculation 20 minutes after being shellacked Saturday by the Red Sox, but he did say, “I’m here to win with the Mets, nothing else.” He also referred, apparently derisively, to the subject as “click bait” (For the record, I don’t get paid by the click — no cracks please).

Anyway, some see trades for the two greats as one of the few chances for the Mets to get something for the future considering how many underperforming and/or overpaid players occupy their roster. It’s worth considering, at least until one realizes there are as many issues with potential deals for the duo as the pair have won multiple Cy Young awards.

One big one, of course, is that the Mets would have to pay their contracts way down to bring back a solid return. The record bookend $43.33 million Mets salaries for Verlander and Scherzer is more than anyone else wanted to pay coming off big years. Verlander’s ERA of 3.47 is almost double the baseball-best 1.75 mark of a year ago, and Scherzer hasn’t been quite as good as Verlander.

Cohen isn’t above wasting money, if necessary, but this would be quite the waste. Combined, the pair makes more than a few teams, and they are both back next year at the same rate (Scherzer obviously won’t opt and walk away).

A few executives contacted thought the Mets would have to pay about half their contracts to bring anything back, and one said to get a good return, the Mets would have to pay “almost all of it.” (The current belief, too, seems to be that they’d have to pay a bit more to deal Scherzer, whose ERA is up to 4.20 after allowing four home runs Saturday, including one to a .160 hitter).

The consensus seems to be that they could get a solid contributor back, but not an impact player. That might change if they were to pay “almost all” the contracts.

But at some point, it becomes unbecoming, bordering on unseemly, to throw your financial heft around. And at some point, the commissioner’s office, which has the right to review trades in which $1 million changes hands, might put the rubber stamp away and reject such a trade.

It’s not just the performances or the cash. Verlander earlier went out with a teres major injury and Scherzer missed time with a a couple relatively minor injuries.

The other issue, of course, is whether they’d accept any deals. The belief is that both were sold not only on the money but the proximity to Cohen, one of the country’s best moneymakers. Make fun if you like, but beyond the contracts, Cohen is said to have done a great sale job on two guys who are about as good at their jobs as he is at his.

Scherzer did once accept a trade, but that was from the rebuilding Nats to the World Series-favored Dodgers. And Verlander once accepted a trade from a cratering Tigers team to go to a World Series-favored Astros, and as he put it, it took him to the “very, very, very last minute” before the deadline to approve that one.

I’m not sure they’d accept this time. Which may make this whole discussion moot. More likely, it seems, might be trades involving two other Mets starters — Carlos Carrasco (who didn’t help matters by being hit hard Sunday) and/or Jose Quintana. Less interesting, but probably a lot more doable.