When Steve Cohen wakes up on Sept. 29 and wonders why the Mets have no more games scheduled, he won’t have to look far for the culprit responsible for his team’s unfathomable collapse. There is only one: David Stearns, his president of baseball operations.

Upon being lured away from the Milwaukee Brewers in October 2023 by Cohen, Stearns was hailed as an analytics genius after having directed the low revenue Brewers to four consecutive trips to the postseason from 2018-2021. Two years after he left Milwaukee, the Brewers, with a $113 million payroll (20th), are fashioning the best record in baseball, while Stearns’ Mets, bolstered by a major league high $339 million payroll, are in the midst of an epic freefall, 13 losses in 16 games leading up this weekend series against the Mariners

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