Excellent point, Michael. This IS how you build championship teams. I wonder if some day we will look back on this year and think we judged David Stearns too harshly because this was the beginning of a great run for the Mets.
Totally agree that the way to build a sustainable winner - and Stearns has said this so he knows - is to supplement home grown talent with veterans and not the other way around. I think Cohen meddles. This year’s mess isn’t all on Stearns imo
Who is it on then? Stearns constructed this brutal roster. He got rid of homegrown stars. He bought high on his free agent pick ups and is selling low. Lindor is the cancer in this clubhouse and was behind Alonso/Nimmo/ McNeil departures. Stearns got lucky with this current production. He didn’t want to bring these guys up, he had to just to fill out a roster after the sell off. New guys are producing but don’t think for one minute that it was Stearn’s doing.
Excellent point, Michael. This IS how you build championship teams. I wonder if some day we will look back on this year and think we judged David Stearns too harshly because this was the beginning of a great run for the Mets.
Totally agree that the way to build a sustainable winner - and Stearns has said this so he knows - is to supplement home grown talent with veterans and not the other way around. I think Cohen meddles. This year’s mess isn’t all on Stearns imo
Who is it on then? Stearns constructed this brutal roster. He got rid of homegrown stars. He bought high on his free agent pick ups and is selling low. Lindor is the cancer in this clubhouse and was behind Alonso/Nimmo/ McNeil departures. Stearns got lucky with this current production. He didn’t want to bring these guys up, he had to just to fill out a roster after the sell off. New guys are producing but don’t think for one minute that it was Stearn’s doing.