{"id":761550,"date":"2026-07-26T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/761550\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:00:59","slug":"the-10-point-plan-to-help-david-stearns-fix-whats-wrong-with-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/761550\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-point plan to help David Stearns fix what&#8217;s wrong with Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mets baseball president David Stearns is busy undoing what he\u2019s done, which won\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t had time to call, but I\u2019m here to help.<\/p>\n<p>The unpalatable combination of a second-in-MLB payroll ($380 million), a record only two games better than MLB\u2019s worst entering Saturday, plus inconsistent prospect performances and an unusually weak list of available free agents makes a quick return to competitiveness difficult. They might have to bat close to 1.000 in their decisions to do it by next season, assuming there is a next season.<\/p>\n<p>Mets owner<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SHgEDYaCFx0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Steve Cohen told us on our Post podcast \u201cThe Show\u201d that he\u2019s \u201cworried,\u201d <\/a>and I see why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mets baseball president David Stearns is busy undoing what he\u2019s done, which won\u2019t be easy. He hasn\u2019t had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,9411,1347,227,4,61,185,430,428],"class_list":["post-761550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-david-stearns","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116983816725003484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761550","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=761550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}