This kind of financial flex will be foreign to what Stearns was allowed to do with the Brewers.īut, for the most part, I think the Mets’ plan this offseason is to try to assemble a contender in 2024 by shopping largely at the margins and with short-term contracts so as not to clutter the long-term future. I do assume the Mets will be in the win-now bidding for Shohei Ohtani (because he is Shohei Ohtani) and Orix Buffaloes ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto (because he just turned 25 last month and literally has world-class stuff). But do nothing that impedes long-term construction of an infrastructure that will upend the Braves’ NL East rule and then resemble its sustainability. So, Stearns is going to be asked to live in two worlds at the outset - fashion a roster that, at minimum, can amass the 85-ish wins necessary to dabble with the riff-raff at the bottom of the wild-card race. But that the priority above all else is not to disrupt construction of an organization that will compete for championships annually. Stearns arrives at a time when Steve Cohen has stated he expects his 2024 team to take a step back in championship potential from what were the odds going into this season yet still contend. Near simultaneously, the Braves were clinching their sixth straight NL East crown with two-plus weeks left in the season, an achievement aided by going 10-3 against these Mets. The Mets routed the Diamondbacks to improve to 6-1 this year against Arizona and to 23-13 against the six teams pursuing the three NL wild-card spots. Kodai Senga leads dominant Mets win over Diamondbacksīut flip back to the previous night and you will find a confluence of what David Stearns will be encountering immediately when he officially takes over as Mets president of baseball operations. The Mets took three of four from the Diamondbacks, culminating with an 11-1 romp in which Kodai Senga was dominant with 10 strikeouts in six innings. “Sure, I am thinking about what could have been,” Lindor said. Francisco Lindor is greeted by his teammates in the dugout after he scores on New York Mets right fielder DJ Stewart two-run single in the sixth inning. It is not an impressive lot, and somehow the Mets could not even make it to this late round-robin. It feels as if these clubs think they can lose their way into October.įirst team to 85 wins (84? 83?) will probably gain postseason entrance among the flawed quartet, with the suddenly struggling Cubs threatening to make a quintet from which two will emerge.
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It is another to look at the low bar that is the NL wild-card race, which is led by the Phillies and features a four-way battle for the final spot in which Arizona, Cincinnati, Miami plus San Francisco were separated by one half-game going into Thursday. It is one matter to discuss the high bar established by the Braves to win the NL East.
In fact, this year-end schedule is like a troll to the 2023 Mets - Arizona, Cincinnati, Miami, Philadelphia, Miami, Philadelphia.
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Lindor is too diplomatic and nice to use my exact language after watching the Diamondbacks for a few days, but how in the heck could the team with the highest payroll ever (by a lot) be unable to figure out how to be as good (or bad?) as Arizona? “I have watched these last few games and what I’m thinking …”Īt that moment, Lindor cut me off and said, “I am thinking it too.”
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I approached Francisco Lindor before Thursday’s four-game series finale against the Diamondbacks and began a question this way:
Guardians eye Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza as possible Terry Francona successorĮxploring Anthony Volpe's rookie slowdown is the kind of review the Yankees needĭavid Stearns is Mets' next great hope for elusive fairytale endingĭavid Stearns' Buck Showalter hit job made for awkward first Mets power play
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