{"id":536365,"date":"2026-01-24T16:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/536365\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:44:13","slug":"inside-mets-star-studded-overhaul-that-comes-with-historical-caveat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/536365\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Mets&#8217; star-studded overhaul that comes with historical caveat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All that is keeping me from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/22\/sports\/the-david-stearns-steve-cohen-truths-revealed-by-mets-offseason\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">really liking this Mets offseason<\/a> is history. That generally the teams perceived as winning the winter so often follow by being among the biggest disappointments of the actual season.<\/p>\n<p>And that has been part of Mets\u2019 lore. Consider:<\/p>\n<p>After the 1991 season, they added Bobby Bonilla, Eddie Murray and Bret Saberhagen, and were a 1992 disaster on (72-90) and off the field, getting dubbed \u201cThe Worst Team Money Could Buy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the 2001 season, they added Roberto Alomar, Pedro Astacio, Jeromy Burnitz, Roger Cede\u00f1o, Shawn Estes and Mo Vaughn, and went 75-86 in 2002, leading to Bobby Valentine\u2019s firing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All that is keeping me from really liking this Mets offseason is history. That generally the teams perceived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,753,599,59,4,61,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-536365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-freddy-peralta","10":"tag-hardball","11":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115951086286784459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}