David Stearns, Steve Cohen proud of 2024 Mets for ‘never giving up’ during roller coaster season

The 2024 Mets season has been an absolute roller coaster.

 

It’s only fitting that’s exactly how their playoff-clinching win went on Monday afternoon, as they pulled out a dramatic come-from-behind victory over the Braves behind Francisco Lindor’s go-ahead homer in the ninth.

 

“That was one of the craziest games I’ve ever been a part of,” Carlos Mendoza said. “Just the meaning of it, coming back in the eighth and then losing the lead and coming back again in the ninth, it was unbelievable, it’s like you can write a book.”

 

The story of this season certainly would also be a pretty damn good book.

 

Even when first-year president of baseball operations David Stearns told everyone throughout spring training that this team was built to be a contender, outside perception remained low.

 

That dropped even lower when they lost their first five games of the season and were quickly viewed as likely sellers ahead of the deadline again after dropping as low as 11 games under .500 during a brutal May skid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 2024 Mets season has been an absolute roller coaster.

It’s only fitting that’s exactly how their playoff-clinching win went on Monday afternoon, as they pulled out a dramatic come-from-behind victory over the Braves behind Francisco Lindor’s go-ahead homer in the ninth.

“That was one of the craziest games I’ve ever been a part of,” Carlos Mendoza said. “Just the meaning of it, coming back in the eighth and then losing the lead and coming back again in the ninth, it was unbelievable, it’s like you can write a book.”

The story of this season certainly would also be a pretty damn good book.

Even when first-year president of baseball operations David Stearns told everyone throughout spring training that this team was built to be a contender, outside perception remained low.

That dropped even lower when they lost their first five games of the season and were quickly viewed as likely sellers ahead of the deadline again after dropping as low as 11 games under .500 during a brutal May skid.

But the guys in the locker room kept their heads down and answered the bell time and time again, and after turning things around throughout the second-half, they finally were able to celebrate on Monday.

“They never quit and never gave up,” owner Steve Cohen said. “I’ve never seen a more resilient group, they believed in themselves when a lot of people didn’t, they just kept going and proved it. You have to admire that, it just shows you anything is possible.”

“I’m just so happy for everyone here, and I’m happy for Mets fans,” Stearns added. “We’re a franchise that hasn’t had enough of these moments, we need to have more of these moments and this is a really important step in that direction.”

And while the celebration certainly was well deserved on Monday night, the Mets know that there’s another chapter to be written in that book, starting on Tuesday night against the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers.

“We know we have more work to do, I don’t think anyone here is satisfied,” Stearns said.

“I just want to keep going,” Cohen added. “This team can do it. They believe in themselves and anything is possible. No one believed in what we were doing around the trade deadline, but they played it out and kept believing in themselves. Here we are now, so you want to believe.”

 

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