3 things that will decide the New York Mets’ 2026 season
The Mets have big goals and want to avoid last season's failure.
3 things that will decide the New York Mets’ 2026 season originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The New York Mets want to overcome the failure of the 2025 MLB season, when they collapsed down the stretch and missed the playoffs entirely.
They'd also love to take even a further leap forward and make a run at dethroning the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League. Every baseball season, there are lots of things, big and small, that define what happens. It's impossible to predict it all before Opening Day.
That doesn't stop it from being a worthwhile exercise. For the Mets, a handful of aspects of their team seem like they'll be major keys to what happens this season. Here, we've got three of those to examine.
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