Last year around this time, the mission was a bit simpler: Use Steve Cohen’s wallet, David Stearns’ salesmanship, a growing organizational reputation, and anything and anyone else available to woo Juan Soto. $765 million later, the Mets had cannonballed into the Winter Meetings with a splash.

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As Stearns & Co. descend upon Orlando, Fla ., this year for the annual meetings of baseball minds, the approach has become more multipronged.

Following an offseason of promise and a season devoid of it, the Mets have to patch over holes just about everywhere, notably at the top of their rotation, first base, a

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