Author: Patrick Glynn

Pete Alonso will soon be a free agent again when he declines his 2026 player option after the World Series. Last year, Alonso’s offseason saw sparse interest from teams in giving him a long-term guaranteed deal over nine figures. So, the 30-year-old first baseman returned to his creature comforts in New York on essentially a one-year deal, allowing him to become the Mets’ franchise leader in...

The Mets’ starting pitchers are probably the most scrutinized group coming out of the 2025 season, and reasonably so. You know the headline stat: Mets starters were first in ERA (2.79) in baseball through June 12, then the season blew up, and they were 27th in the league (5.27) across the rest of the year. It’s an area the Mets must address this winter, and they can’t simply...

David Stearns put a cap on the “tremendously disappointing” 2025 season with a press conference on Monday. He owned up to the construction of the roster and, ultimately, its performance. He highlighted three areas where the team didn’t do well enough this year: Run prevention Defense “Failed to score the runs we needed to score” Let’s take a deeper look at...

I’d call the Mets’ starting pitching their Achilles’ heel the last two months, but the whole team has played poorly since June 12. However, only David Peterson has pitched six innings or more for the team over the last two months. That’s bad. Frankie Montas has been perhaps the worst culprit, averaging right around 4 1/3 innings per appearance since his season debut in...