Mets In Conversation For Most Disappointing Team In MLB

Entering the 2026 MLB season, there was some hope regarding the New York Mets. 

Sure, Edwin Diaz signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pete Alonso took a contract offer from the Baltimore Orioles. 

The Mets also traded Brandon Nimmo and Jeff McNeil, but they did add big names including Bo Bichette and Freddy Peralta, not to mention Luis Robert Jr. 

Going into the All-Star break, nobody expected the Mets to be in the conversation for the worst record in baseball, yet here we are. 

Nobody expected the mets to fire manager Carlos Mendoza before the trade deadline and for them to discuss trading several players in what is suddenly a lost season in Queens. 

MLB.com had power rankings coming out of the All-Star break. The Mets remained right at No. 26, but the comments about them might be alarming. 

"OK, maybe this is the most disappointing team in baseball? It’s probably too late at this point for the Mets to right the ship, so now the task becomes making the most of the Trade Deadline and figuring out which young players should be in the plans for 2027," MLB.com wrote. 

The Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles could also be a part of that conversation, but the Mets are very bad. 

Somehow the Mets have 40 wins. They won four out of five in July before dropping three straight entering the All-Star break. 

As a result, the Mets are searching for a new manager, and they are widely expected to at least open the phone lines for most of the players, except for a select few as was reported on Thursday. 

The Mets are in their second season of Juan Soto's bonkers 15-year, $765 million deal. They also gave up quite a bit to acquire Freddy Peralta from the Milwaukee Brewers, and there is a realistic scenario where he gets traded before the August 3 deadline. 

The Mets invested in Bichette, although he has an opt-out after signing a three-year deal in free agency. 

With all of that being said, even though the Mets lost Alonso, Diaz and others, they were still expected to be a team contending for a Wild Card spot, and not a team in the running for the worst record in baseball with the calendars flipping to August soon. 

It's just a reminder of the unpredictability of the game of baseball.