The day after the regular season ends is prime time for finger pointing in Major League Baseball and there's plenty of blame to go around with the New York Mets .

Owner Steve Cohen took to X on Monday to apologize to the fanbase after his $340 million team collapsed in the second half of the season, turning a 45-24 record into missing the playoffs .

“We were a better team, talent-wise, this year than we were last year,” a veteran Mets player told The Athletic. “Everyone will always compare this year versus last year. On paper, we are a much better team this year than we were last year, and I don’t think it’s necessarily close. It just didn’t work.”

The question of chemistry is a tough one to quantify. What's easier to see is that the Mets' defense just wasn't good.

“Their defen

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