The New York Mets watched another season slip away, finishing a forgettable 83-79 and missing the playoffs before October even began. It wasn’t a collapse as much as it was a slow unraveling — one inning at a time, one rotation turn at a time. By the time August and September rolled around, the pitching staff was running on fumes.

Kodai Senga never fully regained his rhythm and was sent to the minors, David Peterson and Sean Manaea struggled to find consistency, and Clay Holmes wasn’t as good as he was in the first half. The promising young arms — Nolan McLean, Brandon Sproat, and Jonah Tong — offered flashes, particularly McLean, but little in the way of stability in the case of Sproat and Tong. The front office’s decision not to secure a reliable starter before the trade deadline ultima

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