Is David Stearns the kind of person who can learn from his mistakes? We’re about to find out. The New York Mets President of Baseball Operations had a so-so offseason with the biggest moves being the most agreeable ones. Signing Juan Soto and Pete Alonso worked about as well as it could. A few moves further up his reputation alley, like turning Clay Holmes into a starter and taking a chance on Griffin Canning, also deserve some praise.
Stearns can’t pull a muscle patting himself on the back, though. Far too many misses coming from questionable calls should have him reevaluating what went wrong and why.