As we get deeper into the postseason, closer to the offseason, and further away from the nightmarish end to the Mets 2025 campaign, a common question pops up for this team and this organization: what in the world happened here?

If you have not been paying attention, or did a Men In Black-style mind wipe, Jeff Passan put it in a tweet that is succinct enough, and blunt enough, to jog your memory:

It is really hard to fathom that happening in a season. They were the best team in the league, record wise, for months. While it did feel like there was s0me regression coming, mostly because they never really hit or pitched well enough at the same time during that 45-24 stretch, it never felt like a collapse of this magnitude was possible — it just felt like they banked enough wins on the front

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