In Offseason One of the David Stearns Mets regime, he preached about improving “run prevention” as a goal before acquiring the likes of Harrison Bader, Tyrone Taylor and starting pitchers seeking bounce-back seasons.
In Offseason Two of the David Stearns Mets regime, his team-building philosophies mattered less than Steve Cohen’s checkbook, which wrote out the largest contract in baseball history to Juan Soto.
In Offseason Three of the David Stearns Mets regime, he invited some eye-rolls around the game by harping even more upon “run prevention” before taking a wrecking ball to a core that did not prevent or create enough runs to avert the slow-motion nosedive that was the 2025 season.
In some ways, Offseason Three will lead to the first year of the Stearns era in Queens. Over the past month, the Mets president of baseball operations has obliterated much of what came before him. What will rise from the ashes will be the Mets in his image, for better or worse.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
