Mets’ David Stearns should not have made his most recent comments about team originally appeared on The Sporting News

Tuesday night was a good one for the New York Mets, as they secured a much-needed 8-3 win against the San Diego Padres. The Mets are hardly in the playoff picture as of now, and every win here on out will be a massive one for them.

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However, the Mets have still faced numerous issues over the past few months, and these issues have become even more glaring since the trade deadline.

To put things as frankly as possible, the Mets didn’t make the necessary moves they had to at the deadline to compete at the highest level.

Mets GM makes surprising admission

The Mets attempted to, but many of the players they traded for simply haven’t played the type of baseball they were expected to.

When speaking to reporters about how bad the trade deadline was, David Stearns, the Mets president of baseball operations, even went as far as saying that if he knew things would play out the way they have, the trade deadline would’ve been drastically different.

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“I think if I knew exactly how our season would play out, absolutely (I would have approached the trade deadline differently). No question,” Stearns said, per SNY.

“We make the decisions we make at the time with the information we had. I’m very comfortable with the process we went through that led us to those decisions, but yeah, we did not play well during the month of August, and frankly, to this point through September. We’ve had various segments of our team that haven’t performed certainly to the level that we anticipated as we approached the trade deadline, and had I had that knowledge going in, yes, it would have changed what we did.”

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Obviously, it isn’t ideal to hear the Mets’ decision maker go out and say that things would’ve been different if he had had another opportunity to do so.

But at the end of the day, the Mets have what they have now, and all Stearns can do is look back and try not to make similar mistakes that he did this summer.