{"id":434168,"date":"2026-01-24T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434168\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:38:11","slug":"mlb-execs-bullish-on-david-stearns-mets-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434168\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB execs bullish on David Stearns&#8217; Mets overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what baseball has been waiting for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/22\/sports\/mets-stunning-six-day-revamp-was-over-a-year-in-the-making\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Stearns joined Steve Cohen to run the Mets<\/a>, officials throughout the sport were curious to see how the respected executive who ran small-market Milwaukee reacted to having a bigger budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while last year\u2019s signing of Juan Soto was a huge \u2014 and expensive \u2014 move for the Mets, it didn\u2019t have the overall <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/22\/sports\/mets-clearly-better-defensively-after-offseason-additions-david-stearns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">impact on the organization that this offseason has<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To recap: Gone are Pete Alonso, Edwin D\u00edaz, Brandon Nimmo, Jeff McNeil and Luisangel Acu\u00f1a.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is what baseball has been waiting for.\u00a0 When David Stearns joined Steve Cohen to run the Mets,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,35409,591,161518,1830,85,735],"class_list":["post-434168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-david-stearns","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-hot-stove","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434168","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=434168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}