David Stearns officially began what should be a very busy winter of the Mets discontent the correct way during Monday’s 30-minute news conference at a Citi Field way too empty for October.

By apologizing.

As president of baseball ops, Stearns went from Flushing savior a year ago to now the Mets’ resident pinata, which tends to happen after your personally tailored $340 million roster pulls off one of the most stunning collapses in franchise history.

Also, it’s not a great look when your boss Steve Cohen , a hedge-fund titan whose actual job takes place during Wall Street hours, was the guy who engineered the only two winter moves that worked this season: signing Juan Soto and Pete Alonso. Cohen has been doing the baseball owner thing for just five years, but he knew enough to throw ne

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