{"id":204127,"date":"2026-04-21T01:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204127\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:06:10","slug":"mlb-scouts-paint-deary-picture-with-mets-in-need-of-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204127\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB scouts paint deary picture with Mets in need of turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not even a month into the regular season and it sure seems like the Mets season is just about over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/19\/sports\/mets-drop-11th-straight-in-nightmare-extra-inning-loss-to-cubs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Owners of an 11-game losing streak <\/a>and tied with the Royals \u2014 who just stunk up Yankee Stadium for three days \u2014 for the worst record in the majors heading into Monday, the Mets don\u2019t appear to have much reason for optimism.<\/p>\n<p>But if the Mets aren\u2019t going to fold completely, this next nine-game stretch \u2014 with three straight series at home against teams that they are clearly supposed to be better than \u2014 would be the time for a turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, at least according to some scouts and executives, is that it may already be too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not even a month into the regular season and it sure seems like the Mets season is just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20046,35578,19920,20390,20,9,11,320,10,319,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-204127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bo-bichette","9":"tag-brett-baty","10":"tag-david-stearns","11":"tag-juan-soto","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204127","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=204127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}