David Stearns has regrets.

Not necessarily in the process behind his trade deadline decisions – the Mets’ president of baseball operations stood by that in a pregame news conference with reporters Tuesday. But as the Mets – a team that once looked like it was going to breeze into the playoffs – clung to the precarious third wild-card spot , Stearns acknowledged that if he knew how things would have played out with the roster he already had, he would have made different choices at the deadline.

“We made the decisions we made at the time with the information we had, [and] I'm very comfortable with the process we went through,” Stearns said of a deadline that, in part, brought in two inarguably poor returns in Cedric Mullins and Ryan Helsley, and didn’t address the giant holes in the Me

See Full Page