Mets on verge of WORST COLLAPSE in franchise history!

Mets on verge of WORST COLLAPSE in franchise history!

This is Joel Sherman back with three things. Uh let’s stick with the Mets for all three things. Uh I was at the game on Sunday. They lost to the Nationals 3 to2. It was almost an impossible uh loss in an impossible lost weekend where they lost two out of three. Uh because the Nationals are not just a terrible team. Uh they were a terrible team playing terribly all weekend and the Mets couldn’t take advantage of that to win a series or really they should have been able to sweep this series and put themselves in a healthy situation uh to uh play this last week as ahead in the wild card instead. Let’s start here. They’re tied with the Reds for the final wild card. This is number one. Uh the Reds have the tiebreaker. So the Reds are in control. The Reds aren’t going to win every game this week. The Mets are going to have opportunities uh in this last week. But let’s start here. This would be the worst collapse in the history of the Mets. Uh there’s a bad a lot of bad moments for the Mets. Uh the one that’s always picked out as the worst is 2007. They blow a sevengame lead to the Phillies with 17 to play. Uh I I’ll I’ll say this. This this is worse. If you go look at that Phillies team, at least they were losing to a historically significant team. The Phillies, go look at the players on that team. probably 15 guys ended up being on the Hall of Fame ballot. A couple are going to get into the Hall of Fame. Uh they they they they won the World Series, the Phillies, in 2008 and played in the World Series in 2009. They were in the midst of being in the playoffs for five straight years. That was a really really good team. The Mets have been in slow motion, losing this playoff spot for over three months. And it, trust me, the Reds, the Giants, and the Diamondbacks. This is not the 2007 era Phillies. Uh, the Mets got Juan Stoodto from the Yankees. They brought back Pete Alonzo. They brought up Nolan Mlan who looks like he’s going to be a star. They have a 300 plus million dollar payroll. This would be the worst of it. And just to highlight how bad they’ve been, and maybe we just have to accept that they’re bad is since June 13th, they have the 37th uh the 27th out of 30 best record in the sport. It’s 35 and 52. That’s just ahead of Washington. Washington is 28 to 34 and 54. The Mets have been bad for more than half a season. Maybe the reality is they’re bad. If they are, let’s go to number two. We’re going to lose some faith in the leadership here. Uh David Sterns, Steve Conn, Carlos Mendoza, they were hailed last year. The Mets started poorly and then surged to the playoffs and then got all the way to game six of the NLCS before losing to the eventual champion Dodgers. and it felt like the Mets were on the right track with the right people. Uh I would still believe that uh David Sterns running baseball operations is going to be a great move by the Mets, but his stuff hasn’t really worked this year. Uh Con’s money hasn’t worked this year and Mendoza has not been able to reach this group to get the best cohesive play at one time. This team has been disjointed the entire year. It has not played clean baseball in the field. Sometimes That’s not about the manager. It’s just like if you’re going to have Mark Vientos and Pete Alonzo on your corners, you’re going to get some butchery in the field and the Mets have gotten that. But the Mets have not played well. And obviously now the the loudest of the fan base is calling for head of head heads of people. I would think I spoke to David Sterns in the dugout before the game uh yesterday on Sunday and he again reiterated Carl Mendoza is doing a good job. I asked is he in trouble and he said no. He’s doing a a very good job. So I’m going to assume if Steve Conn is listening to David Sterns that uh that that that group that Sterns Mendoza is safe. I wonder about the pitching coach Jeremy Hefner. I wonder about the hitting coach Eric Chavez. If the Mets miss the playoffs this year and I maybe even if they get in and get blown out quickly by say the Dodgers in a wild card round and lose two straight. Uh, I think there’s got to be some reassessment about how things went this bad for this long. Um, and let’s go to number three. There’s still a week left here. There’s still six games left. The Cubs are have lost a bunch of games in a row right now. The Mets are going to Chicago. The Cubs are pretty much locked into that top wild card. They got to take care of a little business this last week, but they don’t have a ton to play for. or the Mets then go to Miami, a team that hasn’t really had anything to play for, but historically has messed up the Mets season in a lot of different years and could do it again. This is a have to go no less than 4 and two, maybe 5- one, heck 6 and 0 week. This the Mets reputation, this 2025 group is on the line here. On paper, they’re better than Cincinnati and Arizona, who are the last teams that could hop them and both have right now uh the tiebreaker over the Mets. The Mets have a week to change the perception of this year’s team. Are they strong enough, talented enough, and have the mental fortitude to do that?

After the Mets dropped a home series to the last-place Nationals and surrendered the last NL Wild Card position, Joel Sherman explains why the club’s 2025 collapse has a strong case for being the worst meltdown in franchise history.

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