Changes will be coming to the New York Mets this offseason after the team with the second-highest payroll in baseball failed to make the postseason in 2025.
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.
Just after the Mets were eliminated from playoff contention on Sunday, the team’s star, Pete Alonso, announced that he would opt out for free agency. This move quickly transformed the interaction around the consistent power bat.
The first domino has fallen in terms of changes coming to the New York Mets' coaching staff this offseason. On Wednesday, SNY baseball insider Andy Martino reported that Mets' catching instructor Glenn Sherlock is retiring.
The 2025 season did not go as the New York Mets planned. They got off to a scorching hot start, owning the best record in baseball on June 12 at 45-24.
It was an extremely disappointing end to the season for the New York Mets. One year after making the National League Championship Series, they missed the playoffs and were one of the worst teams in baseball for about half of the year.
The New York Mets' season ended earlier than anyone could've expected, and now an offseason filled with many questions begins. However, a significant injury concern is being addressed immediately.
There was a lot of chatter about the New York Mets' clubhouse chemistry during the 2025 season, especially in the midst of the team's collapse over the past three or so months.
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Alonso revealed shortly after the Mets' disappointing campaign came to an end on Sunday that he would be opting out of his deal and re-entering the free-agency market.
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.
You can’t make this stuff up. The New York Mets, a team with a payroll that could probably fund a small country, have officially punched their ticket to… an early offseason vacation.