{"id":543239,"date":"2026-01-26T03:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/543239\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T03:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:44:49","slug":"the-mets-tightrope-david-stearns-is-walking-as-he-tries-to-turn-them-into-world-series-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/543239\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mets tightrope David Stearns is walking as he tries to turn them into World Series winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Stearns is consistently fighting a battle on two fronts, attempting to upgrade the major league roster without severely damaging what has emerged as a very good farm system under his watch as Mets president of baseball operations.<\/p>\n<p>Last week was one in which Stearns cashed in some of his prospect capital to fill two significant holes.<\/p>\n<p>First, the Mets sent Luisangel Acu\u00f1a and pitcher Truman Pauley to the White Sox for Luis Robert Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The more seismic transaction occurred a day later, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/22\/sports\/mets-david-stearns-confident-freddy-peralta-is-a-rotation-stabilizer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Freddy Peralta arriving from the Brewers <\/a>for two of the best Mets prospects, Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Stearns is consistently fighting a battle on two fronts, attempting to upgrade the major league roster without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":543240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,98412,62486,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,13726,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-543239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brandon-sproat","10":"tag-david-stearns","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-ny-sports-minute","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-columnists","22":"tag-sports-plus","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115959347543596602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}