The 2023 New York Mets have been one of the most disappointing teams in Major League Baseball and officially started looking to the future at the trade deadline when they dealt several veterans — including future Hall of Fame pitchers Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander — for prospects.
That has led to the lowering of expectations for next season as the Mets start to clearly pivot to the future.
Owner Steve Cohen still wants Mets fans to know that his team is not completely giving up on the 2024 team, and in a letter to the team’s season ticket holders this weekend he promised then a “formidable” team next season.
Said Cohen, via the New York Post:
“We added several key pieces to our team, but things have not turned out how we planned,” Cohen said in the letter. “You are rightfully disappointed and so are we. This is not where we wanted to be in 2023. Our goal is to be a consistent contender. “The only way to do this in a sustainable way is to build a pipeline of high caliber talent in our farm system that will fuel our major league team for years to come.”