Shortly after the New York Mets fell to 34-47 on the season through a 4-3 extra-innings loss to the Chicago Cubs
on Thursday evening, the Mets fired supervisor Carlos Mendoza.
Whereas there was no signal that the Mets have been going to show issues round beneath Mendoza this summer time, workforce proprietor Steve Cohen and Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns are understandably receiving the majority of the blame amongst pockets of followers and media members.
Steve Cohen must “face the music” amid disastrous season
“The concept that you’re not going to have accountability on this franchise is a joke,” New York sports activities radio legend Mike Francesa mentioned on the most recent version of his podcast about Cohen, per Erich Richter of the New York Put up. “I’m going proper previous Mendoza, as a result of I don’t care, he’s small potatoes. I’m going proper previous Stearns as a result of within the grand scheme of issues, he’s small potatoes. And [I’m going] proper to the proprietor. The proprietor, happening five-and-a-half years in the past, with a giant pockets and a giant mouth and made massive guarantees, and now he’s within the witness safety program. Doesn’t work that method. Get off your rearend. Stand up and get up. Face the music. Get right into a press convention, make some statements about your workforce, and reply some questions from the media about the place you’re headed.”
Francesa was referencing how Cohen made it known when he assumed
possession of the Mets within the fall of 2020 that he would think about it “barely disappointing” if the Mets did not win a World Sequence title “within the subsequent three to 5 years.” Whereas the mix of Stearns and Mendoza guided the Mets to the Nationwide League Championship Sequence in 2024, the workforce has largely been a massive and expensive disappointment since June 13, 2025.
David Stearns extra in charge for Mets’ woes than Carlos Mendoza?
In accordance with MLB insider Chelsea Janes of SNY, “every week of being demoralized by early deficits and battered by massive deficits lastly led the Mets to determine they wanted a brand new voice within the dugout.” That mentioned, former Mets common supervisor Steve Phillips shared throughout an look on SiriusXM’s MLB Community Radio that he thinks the Mets have been answerable for “a slipshod roster from the beginning.”
“I don’t suppose Carlos Mendoza is a foul supervisor in any respect,” Phillips added.
For causes that will or could not have been related to supposed issues throughout the clubhouse, Stearns dismantled and restructured the core of the Mets’ roster this previous offseason. In a results-based enterprise, such choices have to this point blown up in Stearns’ face.
“He is in all probability the least culpable of everyone who has contributed to this morass of a season that the Mets are in,” legendary Mets play-by-play announcer Gary Cohen mentioned about Mendoza.
Whereas Gary Cohen did agree that the Mets “needed to do one thing” amid their ongoing woes, he additionally talked about that “poor choices by the entrance workplace” are at the least partially in charge for why New York is presently a last-place workforce.
It stays to be seen what it will take for Steve Cohen to fire Stearns. On Friday afternoon, ESPN’s Jorge Castillo and David Schoenfield reported that Stearns, who’s beneath contract via 2028, is secure in his job “for now.”
“The 2025-26 offseason for the Mets may go down because the worst ever for a common supervisor,” Schoenfield mentioned.
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