{"id":294084,"date":"2026-07-13T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294084\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:52:09","slug":"six-point-plan-to-turn-around-mets-mess-starting-at-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294084\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-point plan to turn around Mets mess starting at trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Mets baseball president David Stearns has maybe his toughest assignment ever now, which is to clean up the mess he\u2019s made.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t discount the possibility he can do it, as he helped turn tiny-market Milwaukee into a perennial winner. But it\u2019s going to take a near-perfect summer and winter after two straight disastrous offseasons in which he mostly collected the infirmed and underperforming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mets are a mess,\u201d one major league scout said, succinctly summing up the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Cleanup on 41 Seaver Way begins soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Mets baseball president David Stearns has maybe his toughest assignment ever now, which is to clean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19920,20,94970,9,11,320,10,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-294084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-david-stearns","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294084","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=294084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}