3 free agents the Mets can sign to win the 2025 World Series

The New York Mets faced Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS this season. After a season of ups and downs, Carlos Mendoza and his team will head home instead of a Subway Series World Series.

New York was counted out for most of the season before the season turned around as quickly as it had gone downhill. This team has come much further than most would have imagined in April.

But they didn’t reach the end goal, and when you’re making over $300 million, continuing to miss the World Series is unacceptable. Steve Cohen and the Mets will be very active in free agency to improve their roster this winter. They have to be, otherwise the year 2025 will be very similar to the year 2024.

Luckily for the Mets faithful, they’ll be spending big this offseason. Money certainly won’t be a limiting factor in how much the Mets front office improves the roster heading into 2025.

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A few years ago, the Mets went out and signed Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander as two true aces at the top of their rotation. Unfortunately, this Mets team wasn’t very competitive and the team had to trade both future Hall of Famers before the trade deadline.

This offseason, the Mets have an opportunity to sign another bona fide star to lead their pitching staff.

Baltimore Orioles star Corbin Burnes will enter free agency this offseason. Nearly every baseball team, including the Orioles, will be interested in bringing Burnes to their city. The difference between the rest of the league and the Mets is how much money the Mets are willing to spend.

Burnes will be an expensive player to move away from Baltimore, but he would come in and likely be one of the top two players in the NL East, if not the best team in the division.

Now I have to say up front that there isn’t much chance that the Mets can sign all three players on this list. The list starts with Corbin Burnes and is followed by two other players who will be just as expensive, but probably much more expensive than Burnes. If New York can sign two of these three players, they will be in prime position to secure the 2025 World Series.

The top player on this list will clearly be the Mets’ top priority this offseason. But the second player on this list is also very important.

This free agent the Mets need to sign as a free agent is their powerhouse first baseman, Pete Alonso. Alonso has spent his entire career with the Mets so far and Steve Cohen and the team must do everything in their power to ensure that Alonso retires as a Met.

Alonso was simply incredible in the big leagues. In 846 big league games, all with the Mets, Alonso is hitting an absurd .249/.339/.514 with 226 home runs. He hit at least 34 home runs in every full season during his big league career.

Alonso is very popular and appreciated in New York. The market to sign him will be extremely hot this offseason with the Mariners and Cubs being the big players in the game. But the Mets have to get him back no matter what.

Cohen will have to spend big this offseason if the Mets want to return to the postseason in 2025. They have a chance to steal the NL East if they make the right moves this winter.

The New York Mets are entering the offseason with one real goal in mind: bringing Juan Soto to the team.

Steve Cohen is currently the richest owner in the game and will likely be willing to compete with Hal Steinbrenner to pry Soto from the Bronx Bombers.

Soto’s total value is expected to be between $500 million and $600 million, which shouldn’t be a problem for Cohen and the organization.

Signing Soto for the next 10 or 15 years is exactly what every team needs, but only a handful of teams can afford it. Adding him to the Mets’ roster will make them postseason contenders for the life of his contract.

Soto has a chance to be the best player in baseball every year. When we look back at the 2020s, there’s a good chance there will be consensus that Soto was the best player of the decade. He’s just so good and he just keeps getting better.

It will obviously be very difficult to pry him away from the Yankees, but Cohen and the Mets need to do everything in their power to get Soto on the team. If they miss out on Soto because he just doesn’t want to be there, that’s fine. But they can’t miss it for lack of effort or money.