First baseman Pete Alonso has already said he will be opting out of his deal with the New York Mets and re-entering free agency, which could set up another will-they-won’t-they winter.
While the New York Mets' 2025 season was undoubtedly disappointing, the good news is that they're in a lot better place that just about every other team who didn't make the MLB playoffs.
The New York Mets finished their season tied with the Cincinnati Reds in the standings. However, a tiebreaker gave the Reds the final National League Wild Card berth, leaving the Mets on the outside looking in.
2025 will be looked back on as a massive disappointment in franchise history. However, outside of the failure to make the postseason, many individual players either enjoyed career years or led the league (or close to it) in respective stat categories (sometimes for better or for worse).
Heading into the 2025 regular season, the New York Mets were labeled as a powerhouse in the National League. New York made a massive move in the offseason when Juan Soto signed a lucrative deal.
The New York Mets' offseason is getting off to a much earlier start than many predicted it would, as a multi-month meltdown resulted in them missing the playoffs.
The New York Mets had one of the more disappointing seasons this year in the MLB, and it’s all because of how they finished. In July, they had over a 96% chance of making the playoffs, and at that time, they were tied for the most wins in the league with 62.
Unfortunately, it’s the first week of October, and we’re already beginning to think about the 2026 season for the New York Mets. After a disappointing season where the team fell a game short of making the playoffs, their offseason plans will be scrutinized closely than ever before.
With the Mets’ season having come to an end on Sunday via the time-honored tradition of losing to the lowly Marlins to miss the playoffs on the final day of the season, we Mets fans are just a few days into a long offseason.
Quite a few analysts have cited leadership as a problem for the Mets. Yet, for all the numerous challenges that occurred in their disappointing campaign, David Stearns insists that a lack of leadership wasn’t to blame.
Once the offseason arrives, there will certainly be one question on the minds of New York Mets fans everywhere: Will Pete Alonso re-sign with the team?
The New York Mets' roster is going to look a lot different in 2026 than it did at the end of the 2025 season. Given how disappointing 2025 ended up, David Stearns and the rest of the Mets' front office are surely under pressure to add valuable pieces to this roster.
This off-season will test most of Juan Soto and the Mets. Now that their cross-town rivals made it to the October baseball despite losing Soto in free agency last season, it’s going to sting even more.
The New York Mets expected to play deep into the National League playoffs. Instead, New York is a laughingstock around the sports world after falling apart.
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He has been known to be dealing with an thumb injury over the final six weeks of the New York Mets' season that he was capable of playing through but would eventually require him to go under the knife.
For the first time in his career spanning eight years, Soto posted an on-base percentage lower than .400. His prior career-low in this stat was .401, which he posted in 2019 and a second time in 2022.
The New York Mets’ astonishing collapse and postseason miss has led to plenty of speculation among fans about what changes might be coming to the organization.