Tim Boyle

Jacob deGrom, now 38, is in year four of five with a possibility of a sixth with the Texas Rangers. Still in the Hall of Fame discussion with a lifetime 2.63 ERA and the best strikeout to walk ratio in MLB history at 5.38, the former New York Mets ace is giving the Rangers the full experience in 2026.

There are few guarantees in life, but if we had to start thinking about the New York Mets rotation for next season, there are two locks. Nolan McLean and Christian Scott are it. Everyone else is expendable aside from these two current Mets rookies. Well, maybe they do have company. Although it's only three starts, Zach Thornton now has a 2.60 ERA in 17.1 innings of work across 3 starts. A 0.92 WHIP and .180 batting average against him, Thornton has defied his Triple-A numbers, draft positioning, and prospect ranking.

What the New York Mets did during the 2026 MLB Draft matters. Next is what everyone else did. We can specifically care about what the other NL East teams did. The first battle of every season involves getting the best of those four other teams.

On July 13, 1977, New York City went dark. Not in a figurative sense because the New York Mets were on the verge of falling 20 games below the .500 mark nearly a month after trading Tom Seaver. Everything literally went black.

The New York Mets handled the 2026 MLB Draft with some early risks, snatching up pitchers with injury history while also snagging an originally projected top 30 pick, Aidan Robbins, in the third-round. However you felt about what they did, a move on Monday was unquestionably a good one.

Carson Wiggins hasn't thrown in a game that mattered outside of maybe a few family gatherings since 2025. This didn't stop the New York Mets from drafting him with their first-round pick over the weekend. If successfully signed, the Mets will have an immediate decision to make about his future.

Eric Wagaman isn't your typical .176 hitter. He's not a prospect. He's not a veteran. He's a guy with limited major league experience brought in this season by the New York Mets to do one thing only: hit left-handed pitchers.

Maybe the biggest miscalculation of all with the 2026 New York Mets came from whoever decided to wait to start selling tickets for the final weeks. In late April, fans began to discuss the inability to buy tickets for the final three months of the season. The assumption was they'd be able to dynamically price games, raising the cost based on opponent and importance.

The 2003 New York Mets weren't trying to kid themselves. They knew well before the trade deadline they'd be selling. The month of July was all about subtraction. On July 14, 2003, they sent one of their best hitters to the Los Angeles Dodgers with some cash for a group of three prospects.

The relationship between Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto has been a driven narrative about the shortcomings of the New York Mets over the last year and a half. The club's fall in 2025 and struggles in 2026 all seem to relate to the two Mets stars not getting along. Everything they do is getting dissected as if star players who aren't best friends haven't won before.