All that time Mets honcho David Stearns was talking about run prevention, I sure thought he meant the other team scoring less.
Joking aside, the $365M Mets are a bottom three offensive team (28th in slugging, 29th in on-base and OPS). Worse, they scored 12 runs in their eight-game losing streak while posting MLB’s highest chase rate.
Fairly, it’s premature for a complete autopsy. But concerns are real with the 7-12 Mets matching their longest losing streak in 20 years. Ominously, the only previous times the Mets lost eight straight in April occurred in 1962 and ’63, via MLB Network.
The New Yorker Stearns, who declined comment, came home with a well-earned excellent rep after guiding small-market Milwaukee to surprising annual success. But he had a rough overall 2024-25 winter — free agent signees Frankie Montas, Jesse Winker, Griffin Canning, A.J. Minter and Sean Manaea are yielding a negligible WAR for $144M, with Canning and Minter unluckily felled by injuries — that preceded their 2025 collapse. Clay Holmes was a good buy at $38M, however the positive re-signing of Pete Alonso for $30M goes on owner Steve Cohen’s ledger.
