By Brian Joura
In general, my preference as a sports fan is for my teams to try to assemble the best clubs they can. In other words, tanking is not my ideal way to go. But sometimes your team is in a spot where tanking isn’t really an option. And then you have the predicament of what’s the best way forward for your squad. And that’s where the 2024 Mets find themselves, at least in my view.
A bushel of things went wrong in 2023 and ownership decided to get serious about stocking the farm system near the trade deadline. Those things resulted in a 75-87 record, a drop of 26 wins from the previous season. But it was also a team that went 23-22 in its final 45 games, which came after the selloff and mostly against teams competing for a playoff spot.
In my opinion, the 2023-24 offseason was a fork in the road time for the Mets. They weren’t that far away from having a team that could seriously talk about playoffs. At the same time, with the owner’s new found commitment to bolstering the farm system, they could have aggressively shopped Pete Alonso and perhaps Jose Quintana and Edwin Diaz, too, looking for additional prospects.
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