The World Series is officially in the books, closing the 2026 MLB season. The New York Mets did not make it back to the World Series for an 11th straight year, leaving David Stearns with plenty of work to do to improve his roster over the course of the offseason.

Stearns has a lot of priorities to consider, including whether to bring back any of the players he dealt at the trade deadline and whether to utilize Steve Cohen's financial resources to put a Godfather offer on the table for Tarik Skubal. Let's go through various position groups for the Mets and attempt to project what the Opening Day roster for the 2027 season will look like.

The exercise will include potential additions, which we will highlight in bold in the following tables.…