{"id":930967,"date":"2026-07-13T01:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/930967\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:15:25","slug":"six-point-plan-to-turn-around-mets-mess-starting-at-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/930967\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-point plan to turn around Mets mess starting at trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Mets baseball president David Stearns has maybe his toughest assignment ever now, which is to clean up the mess he\u2019s made.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t discount the possibility he can do it, as he helped turn tiny-market Milwaukee into a perennial winner. But it\u2019s going to take a near-perfect summer and winter after two straight disastrous offseasons in which he mostly collected the infirmed and underperforming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mets are a mess,\u201d one major league scout said, succinctly summing up the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Cleanup on 41 Seaver Way begins soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Mets baseball president David Stearns has maybe his toughest assignment ever now, which is to clean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":930968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,62486,1266,52993,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-930967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-david-stearns","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116910026294424682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930967","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=930967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}