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PHOENIX, AZ - JANUARY 30: Radio host Adam Schein attends SiriusXM at Super Bowl XLIX Radio Row at the Phoenix Convention Center on January 30, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

The New York Mets’ offense has stalled in the first month of the season. 

In all of MLB, Queens ranks 29th in hits, 26th in doubles, 29th in batting average, and dead last in OPS. The Mets don’t get on base, they don’t get chippy base hits, and they can’t slug. All of this dreadful production is coming on the heels of a David Stearns overhaul. The national media is starting to question the Mets’ ownership and front office in tandem. 

Adam Schein has had Enough of the 2026 Mets

American radio and TV broadcaster Adam Schein weighed in heavily on the lackluster start to the season for New York. 

“So I want you to take a look at the Mets lineup,” Schein exclaimed. Referring to this lineup:

1. Juan Soto (DH)
2. Bo Bichette (3B)
3. Mark Veintos (1B)
4. Austin Slater (RF)
5. Marcus Semien (2B)
6. Andy Ibanez (LF)
7. Francisco Alvarez (Catcher)
8. Tyrone Taylor (CF)
9. Vidal Brujan (SS)

“I want you to just stare at this lineup. Look at the third place hitter, the fourth place hitter, the sixth place hitter, the eighth place hitter, the ninth place hitter. What the hell is that?! What the hell is this lineup?!” 

Schein further shot down any comments on the Mets having leeway this season. 

“I don’t wanna hear that you’re playing with house money. The house is burnt to the ground! Because you’ve spent a lot of money, and you have this! You can’t have a $350 million payroll and throw that on the fields. This is unacceptable. This is not Steve Cohen’s vision. What the hell is this? 

Schein then branched specifically into how Stearns is involved in the chaos. 

“David Stearns has all these great takes on how to build a team, and Craig Kimbrel is coming in? Craig Kimbrel, we looked it up before the show, he’s 91 years old! I thought he was dead! It’s like that scene in Major League, “This guy’s dead! Cross him off then,” what are we doing here?” 

It’s safe to say that New York sports media is fed up with the middling play in Queens.

The Mets are Dealing with Signifcant Injuries 

Throughout all this offensive drama, New York has sustained major blows to its core. After the departure of long-time run producer Pete Alonso to Baltimore, Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto were expected to be the new RBI-men. First, Soto went down for multiple weeks, during which the Mets lost 12 straight games. Then, right when he returned, another leak in the boat sprouted when Lindor hit the shelf with a much more severe calf injury. Additionally, the Mets already lost their Alonso replacement, Jorge Polanco, to bursitis. 

Injuries aren’t the only thing holding back the not-so-mighty-Mets. Superstar shortstop Bo Bichette was inked this offseason to transition to third base and continue his historic offensive ways in Queens. Instead, Bichette has struggled in the field, and his career norms wince at the 2026 numbers. 

This season, Bichette has a .565 OPS in 159 at-bats. His 2024 season was a similar pitfall, but with a career OPS+ of 118, it was scratched off as an outlier. More recent data suggests Bichette may be prone to the occasional ‘bad apple’ season. 

Other rigor mortis bats in the New York lineup include Tyrone Taylor (56 OPS+), Mark Vientos (97 OPS+), Francisco Alvarez (98 OPS+), Marcus Semien (72 OPS+), and Austin Slater (76 OPS+). 

The Mets are in the middle of a nightmare season. If ownership wants to vindicate their existential spending, it’ll require a comeback that rivals Robert Downey Jr.’s. Tony Stark built this in a cave!