If you’re a San Diego Padres fan doom-scrolling through Winter Meetings chaos, the Mets just handed you a weird kind of comfort blanket.
New York watched Pete Alonso walk out the door to the Baltimore Orioles on a five-year, $155 million deal, ending a seven-year run that was basically their entire middle-of-the-order identity. That’s brutal on its own. Then you remember they also let Edwin Díaz get poached by the Dodgers, because of course the Dodgers were lurking around the “elite closer” aisle with a platinum card.
Mets lose Pete Alonso to the Orioles and tumble into a very Padres-style crisis
The Mets are trying to patch up the bullpen with Devin Williams, but Williams is a long shot to return to his previous form.