There is no sugarcoating this 7-12 Mets start. It may be early — the 2024 Mets showed us that — but recent history doesn’t exactly portend an ending in the playoffs.
It’s possible we’re just looking at a Mets team that isn’t very good.
For Joel, everything at this point adds up to a loss of faith in the leadership triad of owner Steve Cohen, head of baseball operations David Stearns and manager Carlos Mendoza.
While there are reasons to have optimism for the likes of Bo Bichette and Jorge Polanco in the middle of their slow starts — Carlos Beltran, Francisco Lindor and Robbie Alomar among them — but a year-plus of big offseason acquisitions not really working has led to fans calling for Mendoza’s job.
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