The Mets gave fans some hope in mid-May when they won five of six, including a series win against the Yankees. Since then, the Mets have won only two games and haven’t scored more than two runs in a game since last Wednesday. The Mets are now 22-33 and are firmly (3.5 games behind the Marlins) in last place in the NL East. Their .400 winning percentage is tied for the fourth worst in baseball, with only the Angels, Tigers and Rockies.

Not much is going right for the Mets right now. The offense has been the second-worst in baseball by wRC+ (82), they have multiple question marks in the rotation, and their defense has been below average at -10 OAA. Only the Giants have scored fewer runs than the Mets’ 210 in 55 games. Francisco Lindor, Jorge Polanco (rehab started today), Francisco Alvarez, Ronny Mauricio, Luis Robert Jr., Tyrone Taylor, Clay Holmes and Kodai Senga are all on the injured list.

This is a Mets team that was expected to be good. They were expected to fight for the division, make the playoffs and maybe get back to where they were in 2024. The expectations coming off a busy offseason were high, but the Mets have fallen flat on their face.

The offseason, which was marked by a ton of pressure on David Stearns to help the Mets get back into their winning ways, has looked like a disaster. Most of the moves haven’t worked, whether it’s the aforementioned injuries or underperformance, or the combination of the two. Stearns put a ton of stock in swapping out a few homegrown players and replacing them mostly with players on short-term deals. Stearns also swapped out most of the coaching staff.

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Offseason Position Player Acquisitions

  • Polanco: .179/.246/.286, 54 wRC+, -0.3 fWAR
  • Marcus Semien: .216/.264/.312, 65 wRC+, -0.4 fWAR
  • Robert Jr.: .224/.327/.329, 95 wRC+, 0.2 fWAR
  • MJ Melendez .203/.322/.351, 100 wRC+, 0.1 fWAR
  • Tommy Pham 0-for-13, -0.3 fWAR
  • Bo Bichette .228/.274/.321, 71 wRC+, 0.3 fWAR

Yikes. That is ugly, to put it lightly. For comparisons sake, Pete Alonso (112 wRC+), Brandon Nimmo (121) and Jeff McNeil (93) have delivered a mixed bag for their new teams.

Offseason Pitching Acquisitions 

The pitching group has been a tad better, but I think it’s fair to say there are still multiple whiffs here, and the Mets expected a bit more out of Williams and even Peralta. The biggest loss in the offseason on the pitching side was Edwin Diaz, who allowed seven runs in six innings for the Dodgers before getting hurt.

There’s no way around it, on May 27, 2026, it sure looks like David Stearns had a brutal offseason in arguably his most important one as the Mets’ head of baseball ops. Steve Cohen and Stearns both gave Carlos Mendoza a vote of confidence earlier in the season. Cohen reportedly gave Stearns assurances that his job is safe, too.

So, where do the Mets go from here, in the short-term and the long-term? Can Stearns and Mendoza really keep their jobs if the Mets continue to be one of the worst teams in baseball this season? Does Cohen want Stearns to orchestrate what clearly looks like a team that should sell on the deadline? Should the Mets do a full rebuild, including firing Stearns and Mendoza, selling at the deadline, and focus on a reset during the upcoming offseason?

There are a plethora of questions surrounding the Mets organization. However, one thing we do know is that the Steven Cohen-owned Mets haven’t delivered to this point, and the fans are deservedly restless.