The New York Mets didn’t just fall short in 2025 — they flat-out faceplanted. With baseball’s biggest payroll and Juan Soto’s record-breaking contract setting expectations sky-high, the Mets were supposed to be the team to beat. Instead, they faded badly down the stretch, limping to an 83–79 finish and missing the postseason entirely. For a team built to win now , that kind of collapse wasn’t just frustrating — it was unacceptable.

Cohen and Stearns Have No Room for Error

Owner Steven Cohen didn’t spend billions to build an 83-win club, and president of baseball operations David Stearns knows it. Both men are determined to make sure 2026 doesn’t become another exercise in “what went wrong?” As Mets insider Anthony DiComo put it during his appearance on Baseball Night in New York , the fr

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