{"id":369065,"date":"2025-12-24T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369065\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:16:10","slug":"why-2026-will-be-the-first-true-david-stearns-mets-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369065\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 2026 will be the first true David Stearns Mets roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Offseason One of the David Stearns Mets regime, he preached about improving \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/21\/sports\/david-stearns-early-mets-moves-are-effort-to-fix-defense\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">run prevention<\/a>\u201d as a goal before acquiring the likes of Harrison Bader, Tyrone Taylor and starting pitchers seeking bounce-back seasons.<\/p>\n<p>In Offseason Two of the David Stearns Mets regime, his team-building philosophies mattered less than Steve Cohen\u2019s checkbook, which wrote out the largest contract in baseball history to Juan Soto.<\/p>\n<p>In Offseason Three of the David Stearns Mets regime, he invited some eye-rolls around the game by harping even more upon \u201crun prevention\u201d before taking a wrecking ball to a core that did not prevent or create enough runs to avert the slow-motion nosedive that was the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, Offseason Three will lead to the first year of the Stearns era in Queens. Over the past month, the Mets president of baseball operations <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/23\/sports\/mets-fans-are-starting-to-turn-their-anger-towards-steve-cohen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has obliterated much of what came before him<\/a>. What will rise from the ashes will be the Mets in his image, for better or worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Offseason One of the David Stearns Mets regime, he preached about improving \u201crun prevention\u201d as a goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,131783,35409,591,48937,1830,15011,85,735],"class_list":["post-369065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-david-stearns","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-new-york-mets","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}