Mets given B+ grade for crazy offseason moves

The New York Mets will have an incredibly different team for the season ahead.

After a brutal collapse to miss the playoffs entirely in 2025, the Mets may have been well justified in making lots of changes.

It'll just be quite unusual.

The Mets lost Pete Alonso, Edwin Diaz, Brandon Nimmo, Jeff McNeil, Starling Marte, Luisangel Acuna and more.

They gained Freddy Peralta, Bo Bichette, Luis Robert Jr., Marcus Semien, Jorge Polanco, Devin Williams, Luke Weaver and more.

How do you make sense of all that? 

Well, ESPN's David Schoenfield has given the Mets' offseason a grade of B+ in a new article on Wednesday.

"The biggest roller coaster in the world is Falcon's Flight, located in Saudi Arabia," Schoenfield writes. "That's what this offseason felt like for Mets fans. Fan favorite Alonso? Gone. Fan favorite Diaz? Gone. Fan favorite Nimmo? Gone. It looked as if it might turn into a disastrous offseason for the Mets. Then came the flurry of post-Christmas moves, including the three-year, $126 million deal for Bichette (which could turn into a one-year deal if he opts out) and the big trade for ace-like starter Peralta."

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The big question, of course, is whether this will make the Mets better.

"I believe so, although there is some risk here, particularly in the bullpen, where Williams and Weaver didn't exactly lock down the late innings last year for the Yankees," Schoenfield writes. "Still, this Mets team will score plenty of runs while being more athletic and better on defense -- much more of a David Stearns-type team."

Maybe the biggest bummer of the whole sequence is that Diaz left specifically for the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Mets certainly won't want to see him in key spots late in the season.

All told, though, the Mets still have tons of talent. They'll hope it's enough to alter the balance of power in the National League.

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