The New York Mets had a rough few days at the Winter Meetings.
Pete Alonso is gone, signed by the Baltimore Orioles. Edwin Diaz, too, having signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
There's a lot of offseason left. But the Mets have lost their franchise's all-time home run leader and their superstar closer.
Can they remedy that? It remains to be seen.
But the reasoning, that's starting to come out.
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ESPN's Jeff Passan wrote this in a new article on Thursday:
"Collapses like the Mets' have consequences, and president of baseball operations David Stearns is reshaping them to his liking. Defensive liabilities are a no-no. Record-setting deals for relief pitchers are verboten."
It's all about priorities, and evidently, Alonso and Diaz didn't fit the priority list.
The Mets didn't get Kyle Schwarber, either, who they had been targeting before his return to the Philadelphia Phillies.
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New York has an opening at first base. At least the Mets already signed Devin Williams, so he keeps the bullpen in decent shape.
The fanbase is definitely waiting to see what Stearns does with his money. The Mets chose not to spend it on Alonso and Diaz, but it's going to be spent somewhere, right? That's certainly the hope in Queens.
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