What’s next for the Mets? How MLB’s most disappointing team can turn things around for 2027

There was no slow-motion crash down the standings like last season. The New York Mets, baseball's most disappointing team a year ago, started 2026 terribly, played poorly in the middle of the summer, then showed enough of a glimmer of hope late to make you wonder what could have been. For the second straight year, the team with baseball's second-highest payroll will be watching from home in October. The Mets were officially eliminated from postseason contention with Monday's loss to Pete Alonso's Baltimore Orioles.

"You can't necessarily predict things and have things work out in a perfect manner sometimes," Alonso said about his former team after returning to Citi Field with the O's earlier this week (via MLB.com). "Sometimes you have a lot of talent and it just doesn't work out for whatever reason. Just based on experience, I think in the future they're going to be fine."

What went wrong? Well, a lot of things. Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto both had multiple stints on the injured list. Clay Holmes broke his leg on a bad-luck comebacker. Kodai Senga was again injured and ineffective (as a starter). The last generation of homegrown players — Francisco Alvarez, Brett Baty, Mark…

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