Mets eliminated from playoffs as humiliating collapse is complete

Just staggering numbers, and almost everybody has to share blame in it, from management, to the coaching staff, to the players themselves. 

The Mets tried to load up at the trade deadline by adding outfielder Cedric Mullins and re-stocking their bullpen, but pretty much every move they made was a gigantic flop, with the bullpen playing one of the biggest roles in the failure. 

Things seemed to really reach a boiling point over the past couple of weeks as manager Carlos Mendoza seemed to have zero answers for any of the struggles, with Sunday's season-ending game being the most maddening of them all. Not only did the Mets lineup get shut down in the biggest game of the year, but they seemed to have no plan on what to do with their pitching staff and had to resort to relying on their much-maligned bullpen for most of the day.

It's an especially poor result when you consider the Mets spent huge money this offseason on big-ticket free agents Juan Soto and Clay Holmes. Soto nearly went 40-40 this season, while Francisco Lindor had his second 30-30 campaign in three years. And it still was not enough to avoid an embarrassing result to the season.

You can be sure major changes are going to come this offseason. It is just a matter of how sweeping they will be. You do not spend the money the Mets spend and accept results like this. Especially not in this manner.