{"id":112443,"date":"2026-01-26T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112443\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:01:08","slug":"the-mets-tightrope-david-stearns-is-walking-as-he-tries-to-turn-them-into-world-series-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112443\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mets tightrope David Stearns is walking as he tries to turn them into World Series winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Stearns is consistently fighting a battle on two fronts, attempting to upgrade the major league roster without severely damaging what has emerged as a very good farm system under his watch as Mets president of baseball operations.<\/p>\n<p>Last week was one in which Stearns cashed in some of his prospect capital to fill two significant holes.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Mets sent Luisangel Acu\u00f1a and pitcher Truman Pauley to the White Sox for Luis Robert Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The more seismic transaction occurred a day later, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/22\/sports\/mets-david-stearns-confident-freddy-peralta-is-a-rotation-stabilizer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with Freddy Peralta arriving from the Brewers <\/a>for two of the best Mets prospects, Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Stearns is consistently fighting a battle on two fronts, attempting to upgrade the major league roster without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35575,19920,20,9,11,320,10,1558,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-112443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brandon-sproat","tag-david-stearns","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-ny-sports-minute","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}