How 2025 actually went.
Juan Soto’s arrival created enormous expectations and gave the Mets another superstar beside Lindor, Alonso, and the returning core. The lineup produced stretches of real power, but the club never found enough steady pitching or consistent play to match the weight surrounding it. Every slump felt larger because the roster had been built to reach October.
Pete Alonso supplied the season’s historic moment by passing Darryl Strawberry as the franchise’s career home-run leader. The record had stood for decades and connected two generations of homegrown power. Soto and Lindor also produced strong years, but individual success could not fully cover the team’s uneven stretches.
The Mets finished 83–79 and missed the postseason, a sharp drop after the joy of 2024. The result turned the offseason toward pitching, depth, and how quickly an expensive roster could be reshaped. Alonso’s record gave the season a permanent place in the archive, even if the team result felt far smaller than the expectations on Opening Day.
Alonso reached the top of the home-run list, but the team never reached the October stage built for it.