NEW YORK — David Stearns, the Mets' president of baseball operations, deemed the 2025 season "tremendously disappointing" and "not nearly good enough."

As the Mets president of baseball operations spoke for more than a half-hour about this unit's shortcomings, the overarching themes pointed to failing to fortify the pitching staff, the challenges brought on by inconsistent defense and failing to score runs in key situations, in spite of big seasons from some of their core.

"I either make or delegate every decision that's made here, so you point to a decision that didn't work out, and I'm responsible for it,' Stearns said. "We have all the resources we need. We have tremendous ownership support, we have tremendous fan support, and clearly, we had segments of our team that were not good en

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