Why the Mets future is bright

Long term thinking beats short term thinking

2023 is an all-time low for the Mets under Steve Cohen.

These type of years were not supposed to happen under his ownership. Mets fans were promised competitve teams every year. Losing by a combined score of 34-3 over the first three games of the weekend series vs Atlanta was not competitive.

I’m here to tell you the Mets future is still bright.

The Mets have shifted to thinking long-term, and long-term thinking usually beats short-term thinking. In fact, the Mets thinking was short-term when they signed two near 40 year old pitchers to $43.3 million contracts.

How did that work out?

By trading those pitchers the Mets have completely transformed their farm system. They acquired two consensus top 100 prospects in Luisangel Acuna and Drew Gilbert. Acuna is now the second best prospect in the Mets system and Gilbert is number four.

11 of the Mets top 30 prospects were not with the team on Opening Day. The Mets trade deadline gave them an infusion of young talent that usually takes years t…