Quite a few analysts have cited leadership as a problem for the Mets. Yet, for all the numerous challenges that occurred in their disappointing campaign, David Stearns insists that a lack of leadership wasn’t to blame. “I think we have leaders in our clubhouse,” the Mets president of baseball operations said the other day at Citi Field. Speaking of the Mets’ leaders, Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo, and Starling Marte have shouldered leadership duties. Despite having three unanimous captains, the club fell one win short of the playoffs after being 21 games above .500 in June. And now, after the Mets missed the October baseball, one of these three leaders criticized Juan Soto for being estranged from the team.

Earlier this year, Juan Soto admitted, “[Starling Marte is] literally the lea

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