For reputational and survival reasons, the easy decision would have been to retain Buck Showalter as manager. But David Stearns he chose the more difficult path, one that asserts the 2024 Mets will be his own, through good or through bad.
In David Stearns’ introductory news conference, the new Mets president of baseball operations strongly suggested he would not make any definitive decision on Pete Alonso this offseason.