Jon Heyman’s latest post has put a blunt marker on the New York Mets’ season: the deadline sale is likely to begin any day. For a club that has spent more on payroll than anyone else in baseball since the 2022 season, and still finds itself in a disastrous 2026 campaign after a major offseason overhaul, that is a damning verdict.
The scale of the frustration is easy to understand. Steve Cohen took control of the Mets in 2020, the club gave Francisco Lindor a 10-year, $341 million contract before the 2022 season, and yet the team has kept falling short. They lost to the Padres in the 2022 wild card series, went 75-87 in 2023, reached the 2024 NLCS, then added Juan Soto on a 15-year, $765 million deal after 2024. Even that was not enough to stop them missing the playoffs again in 2025 after an 83-79 regular season.
Heyman’s message was direct. “Time for Mets deadline sale to begin,” he posted, before adding that “everyone but Ewing, Benge, McLean, Scott and Soto should be made available.” That is not the language of a team making small adjustments. It is the language of a front office that appears ready to accept that this year has gone off course.
Francisco Lindor and the limits of star power
Francisco Lindor remains one of the key names at the centre of the Mets’ story, but the bigger issue is not any one player. It is whether a roster built with heavy spending and elite talent has actually been put together in a way that can survive the grind of a long season.
The Mets have had the resources, the headline names and the ambition. What they have not had enough of is stability. Since 2022, they have been a team defined by big moves and bigger expectations, yet the results have repeatedly fallen short of the level that investment demands.
What Heyman’s post says about the Mets now
The key point in Heyman’s post is not just that sales talk has started. It is that the Mets appear to have reached the stage where almost the entire roster is in play. If that is the direction being signalled, then the focus has clearly shifted from salvaging the season to reshaping what comes next.
That is a significant moment for a franchise that only recently overhauled its roster and expected a different outcome. The 2026 season has become a major disappointment, and the latest signal suggests the Mets are already looking beyond it.
What happens next will tell us how severe the reset becomes. But if Heyman is right, the selloff is not a distant possibility. It is about to begin.
