Mets fire Carlos Mendoza amid nightmare season despite having baseball's largest $330M payroll

The New York Mets' play has deed stone bottom, and they are making a large alteration successful the clubhouse.

Carlos Mendoza, who took the squad to a National League Championship Series successful his archetypal twelvemonth arsenic an MLB manager successful 2024, has been relieved of his duties.

A nightmare play for the Mets reached a tipping constituent connected Thursday nighttime erstwhile the Mets were swept successful 4 games by the Chicago Cubs. They person been outscored 58-22 during their existent six-game losing streak, and they are 13 games nether .500, the lowest people of the season.

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New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza returns to the dugout aft a pitching alteration during the seventh inning against the Washington Nationals astatine Citi Field successful New York City connected April 29, 2026. (Heather Khalifa/Getty Images)

Since June 13 past year, the Mets are 72-102.

This was astir intolerable to foretell due to the fact that the Mets person the largest payroll successful shot astatine astir $330 million, but a 12-game losing streak successful April has been intolerable to overcome.

After owning the champion grounds successful shot astatine 1 constituent past summer, the Mets suffered an epic illness to miss the postseason connected the last time of the season. Afterward, President of Baseball Operations David Stearns overhauled the roster, and nary of it has worked.

The Mets fto Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz locomotion successful escaped bureau portion trading Jeff McNeil and Brandon Nimmo, and brought successful Jorge Polanco, Luis Robert, Bo Bichette, Devin Williams and Luke Weaver. Polanco has not played since April 14 and Robert since April 26, portion Bichette is connected gait for, by far, the worst afloat play of his career. Williams owns a 4.44 ERA aft struggling with the New York Yankees past season, but Luke Weaver's 2.12 ERA is simply a lone agleam spot.

New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza watches from the dugout during the 3rd inning against the St. Louis Cardinals astatine Citi Field successful New York City connected June 11, 2026. (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

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The Mets' discourtesy has the second-worst OPS successful the league, astatine .675, and their starting pitchers' 4.90 ERA is the third-worst mark. They besides person the third-most errors successful the league, contempt Stearns opting for "run prevention" successful the offseason.

But the archetypal to get the axe was Mendoza.

"Carlos has led the enactment with passionateness and grace and is beloved by everyone who works with him connected a regular basis," Stearns said successful a release. "Carlos’ interaction connected our players, staff, and civilization implicit the past 3 seasons has been transformative. Unfortunately, we cognize we are falling abbreviated and alteration is indispensable to determination forward."

Owner Steve Cohen added, "I privation to explicit my deepest gratitude to Carlos Mendoza for his enactment and unwavering commitment. He represented this enactment with integrity and dedication throughout, and I privation him and his household each the best.

"Our committedness to bringing our fans a championship-caliber squad has not changed. There is nary sweetener coating it: this play has been a disappointment and our fans merit amended than what we’ve delivered."

Amid a six-error nighttime connected Wednesday, which came during the 2nd nonaccomplishment of a doubleheader, fans chanted Alonso's sanction retired of frustration. That nighttime was besides the archetypal clip since 1962, the team's archetypal twelvemonth successful existence, that the Mets had an mistake by each infielder.

Former San Diego Padres manager Andy Green, who had been moving successful the team's beforehand office, volition instrumentality implicit arsenic the interim manager.

New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza watches from the dugout during the 3rd inning against the Miami Marlins astatine Citi Field successful New York City connected May 30, 2026. (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

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The Mets are 34-47 astatine the nonstop midway constituent of the season, putting them connected gait to triumph less than 70 games for the archetypal clip since 2003.

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