The New York Mets were officially eliminated from postseason contention on September 15, 2026, dropping to 69-81 after a 4-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles at Citi Field. Despite carrying Major League Baseball’s second-highest payroll at roughly $356.5 million, the franchise missed the playoffs for the second year.
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Citi Field Elimination Caps a 69-81 Campaign
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The mathematical end arrived on a Monday night in New York, where the Orioles handed the Mets their 81st loss of the 2026 season. With only 12 games left on the schedule, the team sat 13 games back of the National League’s final wild-card spot. It marks a sharp regression from 2025, when the Mets stayed in the hunt until the final day of the regular season before missing out on a tiebreaker with Cincinnati.
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El coach de bullpen de la atribulada franquicia, el puertorriqueño José “Cheo” Rosado, señaló que ningún jugador en el club estaba en negación sobre el momento exacto de la eliminación. Rosado stated in a telephone interview with El Nuevo Día that if you were to ask the guys over here when it was that they did not have the opportunity to make the playoffs, or at what moment it became official, none of them would tell you or even know that it was just yesterday.
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Only the Los Angeles Dodgers surpassed New York’s spending, operating with a luxury-tax payroll exceeding $430.4 million, while the Mets invested roughly $356.5 million to build a contender.
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José “Cheo” Rosado, bullpen coach, noted that this was a team built to win from the very beginning, right from the offseason, where training time was invested and a team was prepared to be in the playoffs, and they knew that by the middle of the season, or a little bit past the middle of the season, what they had wanted to do was not achieved.
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Estábamos conscientes. Es inaceptable lo que sucedió, added Rosado, pointing out that players are ultimately focused on entertaining the fans because individual statistics bring no comfort when the global objective of reaching October baseball is missed.
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Early Season Struggles and the Cost of High Expectations
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Things unravelled long before the autumn air arrived. Entre las múltiples lesiones desde temprano, incluyendo las que sufrieron figuras clave como Juan Soto (pantorrilla) y el boricua Francisco Lindor (pantorrilla) a inicios del torneo, los Mets cayeron en una espiral descendente. By the time the All-Star break arrived in mid-July, the club sat at a dismal 40-57, a hole too deep for even a second-half recovery to fix. Though the team stabilized after the break with a 29-24 record, the damage was already done.
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The immense pressure cooker of New York played its own role. El dirigente venezolano Carlos Mendoza fue despedido a finales de junio y en sustitución nombraron como interino a Andy Green. Rosado acknowledged that the coaching staff may have inadvertently added to the burden by reinforcing the rigid demand that victory in New York is mandatory.
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Juan Soto Returns from the Injured List
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Amid the franchise’s broader disappointments, individual roster management continued. El toletero dominicano de los Mets de Nueva York, Juan Soto, fue reincorporado el sábado desde la lista de lesionados de 10 días antes del juego del equipo contra los Astros de Houston.
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El cinco veces All-Star ingresó a la lista de lesionados el mes pasado por segunda vez esta temporada después de que los estudios de imagen revelaran una distensión de grado 2. Soto had been dealing with persistent calf discomfort for about a week before leaving a game against the Dodgers with obvious discomfort, receiving two walks against Los Angeles starter Roki Sasaki during a 4-2 loss at Citi Field before being replaced by Dominican pinch hitter Jorge Polanco in the sixth inning with the score tied 1-1.
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Soto batea para .283 con 21 jonrones, 52 carreras impulsadas y un OPS de .947 en 84 juegos durante su segunda temporada con los Mets. Los Mets también enviaron al infielder Eric Wagaman a Triple-A tras la derrota 3-1 del viernes por la noche ante los Astros.
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