How New York Mets Could Define MLB Offseason

The New York Mets could do a lot of different things this offseason and it could help define what other teams do leading into 2024.

The New York Mets spent plenty of money the last two offseasons, to the point where they defined the direction of those offseasons for other organizations.

Well, ultimately, those expenditures didn’t pay off. But, what’s to say the Mets don’t try it again?

MLB.com ranked 13 teams that could help define the direction of this offseason, and the Mets made the list.

You could say the Mets have already some defining. Out are general manager Billy Eppler and manager Buck Showalter. In are new president of baseball operations in David Stearns and new manager Carlos Mendoza.

But the Mets traded away their two biggest expenditures of the last two offseasons, pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, to get younger.

Carlos Carrasco has hit free agency. David Peterson’s surgery means he won’t be ready for Opening Day. There’s also the looming Pete Alonso question.

Still, there’s no questioning that the Mets have an owner committed to doing everything possible to make the Mets winners, per MLB.com:

That said, does anyone really think (owner) Steve Cohen is just going to let the (Shohei) Ohtani market -- or, for that matter, the (Yoshinobu) Yamamoto market -- move along without him? Nah. Maybe the Mets, who aren’t far away at all from being a good ballclub again, won’t actually land one of this market’s big fish, but they’re bound to at least be involved in the bidding in some capacity.

Yes, the Mets could still spend and spend big. But, even if they don’t, they return Rookie of the Year finalist Kodai Senga, would could help them in the recruitinment of Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

The Mets also have cornerstone infielder Francisco Lindor, who just won a Silver Slugger award.

Either way, the Mets are going to be a factor this offseason. It’s just a matter of how much they’re willing to spend to do it.