New York Mets Jon Heyman The six-point plan for David Stearns to turn around Mets mess starting at trade deadline By Jon Heyman Published July 12, 2026, 8:55 p.m. ET Mets left fielder Juan Soto (22) reacts after he flies out in the eighth inning against the Kansas City Royals at Citi Field, Sunday, July 12, 2026, in Queens, NY. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST PHILADELPHIA — Mets baseball president David Stearns has maybe his toughest assignment ever now, which is to clean up the mess he’s made.
We don’t discount the possibility he can do it, as he helped turn tiny-market Milwaukee into a perennial winner. But it’s going to take a near-perfect summer and winter after two straight disastrous offseasons in which he mostly collected the infirmed and underperforming.
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“The Mets are a mess,” one major league scout said, succinctly summing up the situation.
