Once the technicolor cover of the New York Knicks’ NBA championship run was removed, the New York Mets were exposed. The Kings of Queens had no clothes. No situational hitting, no team defense, no depth, no signs of player growth and no chance that a piecemeal roster construction built on run prevention was ever going to work.
Over the past six games, four of them at home, the Mets went 0–6 while getting outscored 54–22 and committing 11 errors. It was the kind of dispirited, dysfunctional baseball that gets a manager fired, which is what owner Steve Cohen and president of baseball operations David Stearns decided Friday they needed to do to manager Carlos Mendoza.
