When Opening Day 2026 rolls around, perhaps New York Mets fans will look back at the events of the past week as if it were all a bad dream. Maybe by then, president of baseball operations David Stearns will have added Tarik Skubal and Fernando Tatis Jr. to the roster. Cody Bellinger, too. All will be restored, all will be well in Queens.
But for now, the "it gets worse before it gets better" mantra has only been halfway traversed by Stearns and the Mets, which has left New York's fan base in a frightful state.