The Mets’ ownership and front office are in denial. I get that they aren’t willing to admit any kind of defeat, but they should be making some changes because things aren’t getting better, and that goes back to last season. 

In the last 162 games, the Mets are 73-89. They are currently 15-25 with a .375 winning percentage. Neither number is good, and changes were made to correct things. 

It’s not too early in the season to bring this up, and Steven Cohen is obviously unwilling to say anything negative in public, and that’s why he only tweets when the team is winning a game or a series to try to put a happy face on a dreadful season. 

The Mets can pretend that their data shows they are a good team. Juan Soto can try to convince himself that he’s not failing. Carlos Mendoza can keep repeating the same thing after losses, and guess what, your attendance and television ratings will go down. Merch sales will go down. The fans don’t like to be gaslighted. They can deal with another bad start to a season if they feel like there was a plan to try and fix it, but the team is seemingly ready to go down with the ship. They spent badly, and I guess they are a lot like the Wilpons in the sense that they don’t want to add any more salaries. 

Here’s Another Stat

The Mets are 0-92 when trailing after 8 innings, and that goes back to last season. There is no metric that you can find to say this team will come out of it. The division is already out of reach, and they are eight out of the Wild Card with eight teams in front of them. If the owner is unwilling to fire Stearns and fire Mendoza, then there will be yet another sell-off, and the guy who has put this abysmal roster together is in charge of the assets they get in return. Nobody is watching the store.

Hire a General Manager

Stearns is in over his head. He needs a general manager in there to be a sounding board and to help guide him past the analytics fool’s gold or plethora of former Yankees or Brewers players that were good 3-5 years ago. The Mets need to stop trying to rehab former first-round picks or players who have trended down for multiple seasons. The Mets are now going to sell off players for pennies on the dollar unless they eat a lot of money. Either way, the head decision maker gets a vote of no-confidence from me.