When the new Mets leadership took over in November and the Wilpons out of the equation, one of the hopes was that the Mets would finally be able to modernize their front office to the current game—something the Wilpons were never capable of or willing to do. One of the reasons the Mets seemed to consistently underperform their true talent level was that the team’s braintrust never grasped the quickly evolving modern trends in the game, failing to put players in better positions to succeed.
The new Mets leadership, headed by Sandy Alderson and GM Zack Scott, has expanded the analytics side of things tremendously.