Often minimized from the holiday classic \u201cHow the Grinch Stole Christmas\u201d is that the title character ultimately redeems himself and there is happiness in Whoville.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the Mets\u2019 universe, David Stearns is playing the role of Grinch this winter, but it\u2019s fair to wonder if there will be such a joyous ending.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s president of baseball operations has removed the heart from this roster and brought sadness and anger to a significant chunk of the fan base that was tethered to the club\u2019s core.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pete Alonso and Edwin D\u00edaz left<\/a> through free agency. Brandon Nimmo and Jeff McNeil were traded<\/a>. And there wasn\u2019t anything close to a cool toy waiting under the holiday tree.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Often minimized from the holiday classic \u201cHow the Grinch Stole Christmas\u201d is that the title character ultimately redeems…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[47317,363,130885,1189,99,362,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-372200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-david-stearns","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-free-agency","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}