Change essential for the Mets after another franchise-defined collapse

Of course, the biggest collapse in the history of Mets – if not the baseball history – ended in the most painful way, one that even seemed unimaginable, even for people who should have known better.

Of course, the Marlins, the Vans’ Vanquishers of the Mets such as the 2007 and 2008, would close the 2025 Mets with a 4-0 win Sunday, less than 24 hours after the Mets gave a last bit of false hope with a dominant shutout victory, just like in 2007 and 2008.

But the Mets not only lost Sunday, when Francisco Lindor handed over 11 minutes after the Reds handed the Mets, the gift they needed by spreading an early lead and wasting to the brewers, hit in the seasonal double game.

“If you win and they win, it still puts it, don’t get me wrong,” said Brandon Nimmo. “But it stings even more knowing that it was inside your grip. The only thing you had to do was win that last game.

“So that was a nice little cherry at the top.”

So this was not 2007 or 2008, when the Mets at least lost and a play-in game missed when the Phillies and Brewers won their finals to conquer the NL East and De Wild Card respectively. It was somehow worse-especially because the ever-increasing play-offs of baseball should have made such a collapse impossible.

The Mets built the exciting NLCs from last year by 45-24 to 12 June. Prior to this season, the only teams in the Wild Card era that won at least 45 of their first 69 games and did not make the play-offs the play-offs, the 2002 Boston Red Sox and 2003 Seattle Mariners, each of which 93 games won only 93 games won only 93 games won won won won won won only 93 matches won won games won only 93 matches won competitions won just 93 games won matches won just 93 games won games. won, maar 93 games won, maar 93 games won maar 93 games won maar 93 games won maar 93 games won, maar 93 games won, maar 93 wedstrijden won maar 93 wedstrijden won maar 93 wedstrijden won, maar 93 wedstrijden won, maar 93 wedstrijden won, maar 93 games won, maar 93 games won, maar de 93 wedstrijden won, maar de leiding hadden van de wages.

The Mets had two extra Playoff berths in which they could fall. But they went 38-55 after June 13, the fifth-strict record in the game prior to the twins and last place Rockies, Nationals and White Sox, to only become the second team in baseball history to win at least 45 of their first 69 games and not to end better than sixth in their competition. The 1977 Cubs opened 47-22 and finished 81-81, in sixth place in the NL with the Astros.

“We came in with many expectations and here we went home,” said Carlos Mendoza manager. “We were not just short, we were not alone in October.”

The work suggests that this team was much more than one victory away from championship conflicts – an unforgivable result for a team of $ 340 million. Yet there would have been a victory that the Mets had to train this afternoon in a Dodger Stadium. And long before yesterday there were countless candidates for the What-IF Game of the Year.

Clear definition points were established on June 12, when Kodai Senga sustained a hamstring injury and reached for a wandering Pete Alonso throw while he first covered, and June 13, when Clay Holmes was drawn after five innings with a four-run lead and the Mets suffered a 7-5 loss against the Rays. The Mets conquered a five-run shortage against the Guardians on 4 August and left the bases full of one in the ninth inning, but did not score in what a loss of 7-6, 10 inning ended. (This is also a point of delimitation for the How-Did-They-Win-the-Division Guardians)

Oh and on July 19, David Wright retired his number before the Mets suffered a 5-2 loss for the Reds, which now seems particularly cruel and appropriate, given that another generation Mets will be defined by a collapse.

“It only shows the value of what one game means in the course of 162 games,” said Alonso.

The failure of David Stearns to build a pitching staff that is able to use the 162 game grind gets a lot of attention and guilt. Let’s not forget that the Mets set a team record for runs scored in a calendar month in August, when they went 11-17.

But despite the presence of Nimmo, Alonso, Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto – who combined no fewer than 137 homers, 409 RBIs and 83 stolen base while they played 637 from a possible 648 games – the mets were largely also unreliable on attack.

The Mets scored two runs or fewer 44 times, bound for the fifth masts such competitions in the Majors with the Blue Jays and Mariners, who deserved the two byes in the Al. But the Mets scored two points or less 27 times after June 13. And the most damn of all, they never won a competition in which they were left behind after eight innings.

Last year’s play-off push ended with the Mets that the last Wildcard achieved by mounting the comebacks of the eighth and ninth inning against the Braves in Game No. 161 – Another memory that historically all the outbursts of optimism for the Mets are almost always followed by a discouraging reality control.

The defeated Nimmo who spoke in the visiting dressing room in Miami on Sunday was in a clear contrast with the Borderline -with which he was in the home club house in Citi Field last September 22, when the rising Mets came in a draw in the last week of the last two wild card spots.

“I’m sorry for the old Mets fans who like to wallow in it, but that’s not what we are trying to do more here,” Nimmo said after a victory at the Phillies in the regular season finale. “We try to be a winning organization from top to bottom. We try to do that every year.”

Fifty -three weeks later, any progress in the direction of that goal was deleted. The first half decade of the Steve Cohen era did not have to give the championship that Cohen stated that he wanted to win at the helm within his first three to five years, but more had to be achieved than to add annual chapters to the history of the franchise of abject disappointments.

Collections such as these are particularly difficult to repair for those involved. The core members of and managers who compiled the Phillies from 1964, 1978 Red Sox and 1995 and Angels, never came close to a championship after their historic Swoons-Noch, someone associated with the 2007-08 Mets except Wright.

“Until we win, it will be attached to all of us,” said Mendoza.

At least at the Major League level, Stearns did little to justify the faith and patience that Cohen was waiting for him to freely shake the brewers (who, by the way, ended the season with the best record in baseball). But he is almost certainly not going somewhere, so he will be the one who is responsible for figuring out how to tinker with a core that is both one of the best in Mets History and will play more and more unlikely in World Series games.

And to be honest, change is needed for a team that is eight games more than .500 is in the regular season game since 2023, and an insufficient team is for good more than half that time. Depart the 110-62 regular season marking from 3 June 2024 to 12 June 2025 and the METS are 137-177 in their other 314 games. That is a .436 winning percentage, a pace of 71 win over a full season. Maybe this is who these mets are.

There was also a sense of inevitability about this result that a kind of houseb is required. During last year’s last regular season management, Mendoza stated that the Mets would play more matches on Citi Field. This year in advance he answers to questions about the play -offs by noting that they had to get there first.

Alonso is a free agent, Edwin Diaz can unsubscribe and Jeff McNeil starts in the last year of his contract. This will be the last winter before Nimmo earns 10/5 rights. Lindor already has 10/5 rights and is not yet halfway through his contract.

All five players are probably Mets Hall of Famers, if not candidates to retire. But just like the team they represent, they are susceptible to valleys that are just as frustrating as the peaks are euphoric. It is difficult to see them all in this team next year.

“Whatever happens, our team will look different,” said Lindor. “There are many good guys here, many good people who want it and (are) still looking for winning. It will not look the same.”

It should not be, after a collapse that will define these players and their franchise forever.