With the year coming to an end, it’s time to take a look back at 2022. The Mets season may not have entirely gone as we had planned for, but it was still filled with some memorable moments. What were your favorites? Here are ours.

John Sheridan

My favorite has been this offseason, the greatest in Mets history. The team re-signed Edwin Díaz and Brandon Nimmo to record deals.

They brought in Justin Verlander, José Quintana, Kodai Senga, Omar Narváez, and hopefully Carlos Correa. They’ve also made important subtractions, including losing James McCann.

In everything Steve Cohen has done, he’s moving the Mets forward towards winning a World Series. Correct that. Not just one, multiple. This may soon rival the 1980’s as the best time to be a Mets fan.

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Rich Sparago

My favorite Mets moment was Thursday, May 5 at Philadelphia. The Mets were behind 7-1 going into the 9th inning, and rallied for 7 runs to win the game. It was early in the season, when there already had been a few signs that this team was special. This comeback win sent a message that this was a never-day-die team, that had the makeup of a winner.

We all know that things did not end as we had hoped, but the 2022 Mets gave us the best regular season since 1986. It was a fun six months, and while there were other magic moments (like the June 5 extra innings win at LAD), the May 5 comeback gave me my biggest thrill of the year.

Michael Garaffa

There were a ton of incredible Mets moments in 2022, so it really is hard to pick just one. However, there was one day in 2022 that had me happier than I have been in years, and that was when the Mets won Game 2 of the NL Wild Card Series against the Padres.

That was the first Mets Postseason win since 2015, and to experience that as an adult was something special. The last time the Mets won a Postseason game I was a freshman in high school. Now, I was able to enjoy it even more and appreciate what it really meant. That game, albeit fruitless, gave me hope that the Mets really had a chance to win that series.

Dan Quiñones

Aug. 7 – deGrom’s first start back at Citi Field

Obviously it’s a bit harder for Mets fans to think fondly of Jacob deGrom these days, but his first start back at Citi Field against Atlanta was one of the best moments of the year for the Mets.

The Mets did an amazing job holding their NL East lead over the Braves without him. Seeing deGrom not only beat the Braves but dominate them made me as optimistic as ever that this team had what it took to win it all.

Unfortunately, we all know it didn’t work out that way, and deGrom left for a team that nearly lost 100 games last season, but I’m not ready to ignore all the great memories he gave us. That day was one of the best.

Andrew Steele-Davis

I’ve mentioned this in another roundtable but my favorite Met Moment of 2022 has to be July 9, the day the Mets retired Keith Hernandez‘s jersey. It was a long overdue honor for one of the best players to have ever played in Queens, and it proved to be a special, special day at Citi Field. With the sun blazing and with a sell-out crowd, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house as Mets greats turned out in full force to pay tribute to Hernandez.

It was a ceremony that was executed perfectly by the organization, and it was the biggest reminder yet that the Cohens remain committed to celebrating this franchise’s storied past. Something that wasn’t always evident under the Wilpons. Hernandez was a true master of his craft and the whole day was a fitting tribute to a player who gave everything he had while in a Mets uniform. And the day got a perfect finale in the form of a dramatic walk-off win over the Miami Marlins in extra innings. For those lucky enough to be at Citi Field that day, they will probably agree that Hernandez getting his jersey retired belongs as one of the top Mets Moments of 2022.