Mets owner Steve Cohen backs team's architect of brutal season, says team will 'live that contract out'

Just about everything that David Stearns has touched with the New York Mets has turned to you-know-what. Stearns took over as the Mets' president of baseball operations in 2024 and made it to the National League Championship Series , but after blowing the best record in baseball last year en route to an epic collapse and following it up with a 36-50 record thus far, Stearns is public enemy No. 1 in Queens. The Mets fired manager Carlos Mendoza, who also joined the team in 2024, last week, but Me