HE did this to the fans…to the media…to the organization…he brought it on himself. Because he is arrogant enough to believe that he knows more than everyone else, that he is the smartest person in the room.

The Mets are in last place at the end of June. The Mets have the highest payroll east of Los Angeles, California.

The Miami Marlins have the lowest payroll in MLB, the lowest, and are in third place in the NL East with a record of 41-39, 2 games OVER .500, 8 games out of first place and 6 games ahead of the Mets.

The Cleveland Guardians have the second lowest payroll in MLB, and are in second place in the AL Central with a record of 41-39, 2 games over .500, 1 game out of first place.

The Tampa Bay Rays have the third lowest payroll in MLB and are in second place in the AL East with a record of 43-33, 10 games over .500, 3 games out of first place.

The Chicago White Sox have the fourth lowest payroll in MLB and are in first place in the AL Central with a record of 41-37, 4 games over .500, a game ahead of the Guardians in the division.

The Washington Nationals have the fifth lowest payroll in MLB and are tied for third place with the Marlins in the NL East with a record of 41-39, 2 games over .500, 8 games out of first place and also 6 games ahead of the Mets.

Do you see where this is going? And let’s just mention again the Chicago White Sox. Last season they lost 102 games. And in 2024, they actually flirted with becoming the team with the absolute worst record in MLB history, but managed to eke out a couple of wins at the end to finish at 41-121 so that they would literally finish with just a SLIGHTLY better record than the 1962 Mets.

So what would make anyone in their right minds think that the Mets would have more success than the Marlins, Guardians, Rays, Nationals, and especially the White Sox? Because of the money?

Apparently these five teams, all in smaller markets with the exception of the Chisox, have been able to produce better products than the Mets. And apparently, the brain trust of these organizations are having much more success than the brain trust of the Mets.

David Stearns did not win a World Series title in Milwaukee – they never even made a World Series APPEARANCE while he was at the helm. What he DID do is create a situation where the team was annually competitive in a division that is annually the weakest in MLB. So was his success a reality or a façade created by the dynamics?

David Stearns is an analytics person, a mathematician. He is NOT a baseball guru. David Stearns never played baseball, at least not on any competitive level if any level at all. There is no record of him playing at Harvard University, or even at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in Manhattan…he wrote for the school newspaper.

So where did anyone believe that David Stearns has the acumen to head a Major League Baseball team’s baseball operations?

But was it any different when the Mets for some God forsaken reason brought in Brodie Van Wagenen? He was an agent. What business did he have acting as a GM for the New York Mets?

Like him or not, the Mets have had one steady, level-headed, stable person in the driver’s seat over the last 17 seasons – Sandy Alderson (2010-2018, 2021). Stable is the key word. He hired and surrounded himself with intelligent “baseball” people and while he really wanted no part of the job, he was committed to righting the organization and preventing the free fall that was about to happen thanks to the Wilpons.

Other than that, it’s been a literal shit show of people coming and going – Jared Porter, Zack Scott, Billy Eppler, and now Stearns.

David Stearns has REPEATEDLY talked about run prevention, getting younger, getting more athletic. Well not a single move he has made has reflected on any one of those initiatives.

Davey Johnson, back in the 1980’s, was using computer technology to get trends and chart tendencies. It’s not a new concept. But the constant talk about launch angles and exit velocities is ridiculous.

There are certain star players who were not very good at “teaching” and “coaching” young players – Ted Williams and Yogi Berra are great examples – simply because they had the abilities to do things that other younger players just couldn’t possibly do, and they would get frustrated. Some people are just not born to teach. But at least they KNEW the game. They knew HOW to play the game.

And further Insisting that players conduct themselves and try to execute strictly based on the data that some computer nerd has provided, without the ability to be flexible to take into the account of any human element, if not only shortsighted, but inherently DUMB.

And so not only has David Stearns gutted the team of players he didn’t want, he is insisting that the players he DID keep, that he DID acquire, participate like he is playing a game of Strat-o-Matic baseball.

You DO know that Strat-o-Matic baseball is played by rolling the dice, right? Well this roll of the dice with David Stearns has come up a huge snake eyes.