When you sit down to start writing about a baseball season, it’s not common to immediately think of your favorite team’s head of baseball operations. But with the Mets starting their 2024 season against the Brewers, the team that new president of baseball operations David Stearns used to run, it’s impossible to avoid leading with that.
Stearns was named the Brewers’ new general manager ahead of the 2015 season, and he spent four years in that role before being promoted to president of baseball operations, a role in which he also spent four seasons before stepping down after the conclusion of the season in 2022.