New York Mets 2025 Season Preview

The Juan Soto Era begins for the New York Mets. Owner Steve Cohen spent $765 million to lure the star from the New York Yankees via free agency. Is Soto the key cog to a team that will win it all or are the Mets doomed to continue falling short? One can be sure they will pop up in plentyof MLB playoff predictions.

2025 New York Mets Win Total Projection & World Series

The Mets sit at +1100 in World Series odds. That has them tied with the Phillies and behind the Braves in the NL East. The win total projection is 90½. So here’s the question when it comes to MLB predictions: Is Soto worth more than one more victory than the Mets had in 2024? One would have to think Cohen and the front office hopes so. That’s a lot of money to spend and to get fewer wins or just one more.

2025 New York Mets Projected Starting Lineup

• Francisco Lindor, SS
• Juan Soto, RF
• Pete Alonso, 1B
• Brandon Nimmo, LF
• Mark Vientos, 3B
• Jesse Winker, DH
• Tyrone Taylor, CF
• Brett Baty, 2B
• Luis Torrens, C

Lineup Strengths and Weaknesses

The top of the lineup is awesome and then you get to Alonso. In MLB news, the Mets and Polar Bear found a way to come to an agreement, so he didn’t leave. Will they regret re-signing Alonso? He had 34 home runs and 88 RBI last year but went dry down the stretch until delivering a couple of key hits. He struck out 172 times, too. That’s not a way to get Lindor and Soto home once they get on base.

Winker provides a spark with his bat and attitude, and Vientos is coming off a year where he hit 27 home runs. Starling Marte is another bat the Mets can turn to when needing some punch. MLB injuries will cost Francisco Alvarez and Jeff McNeil time. The season hasn’t started yet and the dinks and dents are already impacting the lineup and roster.

The Mets could be a good team to use in MLB baseball parlay picks when it comes to home runs in a single game. They have that kind of power in the lineup.

New York Mets Projected Starting Rotation

1. Clay Holmes, RHP
2. Tylor Megill, RHP
3. Griffin Canning, RHP
4. David Peterson, LHP
5. Kodai Senga, RHP

The best plans don’t work out due to MLB injuries, as mentioned above. MLB teams will be thrilled that Sean Manaea and Frankie Montas are out of the rotation. One has an oblique injury, the other a late strain. This could temper MLB expert picks when it comes to what the Mets will do early and throughout 2025. Dig a hole against the Phillies and Braves, and it won’t be easy to overcome.

Clay Holmes is now the Opening Day starter. He’s another former Yankee. MLB matchups won’t favor the Mets here as Holmes closed out 50 games for the Bronx Bombers last year and has not made a start since 2018. That’s a reach to have him as your No. 1 guy until the aforementioned pitchers return from injuries.

Senga went out toward the end of July with a high calf strain and was done for the year. Peterson was a strong 10-3 in 2024 and Megill made 15 starts and had an impressive 91 Ks in 78 innings.

Carlos Mendoza has to hope these starters can keep the team together through April at the earliest. This is a daunting position for a team with a monster payroll that will be the darling of many MLB picks.

Projected Bullpen

Edwin Díaz, A.J. Minter, Ryne Stanek, Reed Garrett, Jose Butto, Danny Young, Max Kranick, Paul Blackburn

Diaz must stay healthy and he must be lights out. He struck out 84 in 53 innings last year and finished 40 games. The bullpen needs to find ways to pick up the starters and get the ball to Diaz with a lead. It is ultra-important.

Garrett was another strikeout machine, with 83 in 57 innings. It’s hard to believe how many batters have trouble actually putting wood to the ball these days. Not sure whether it is a credit to great pitching or inept fundamentals at the plate. Probably both.

New York Mets Schedule and Key Matchups

The Mets catch the Marlins on the road and at home in their first weeks. That should be beneficial with the damaged pitching rotation. There will be an interesting challenge on the road after that as they visit Minnesota and the Athletics.

A stretching in May will give people an idea of how good this team truly. Is. There is a road series in Boston and then the Bronx before the Dodgers come to Citi Field. That’s a rough-and-tumble nine-game stretch.

After seeing the Dodgers at home May 23-25, the Amazins have a four-game series at Chavez Ravine from June 2-5. That road swing ends in Colorado. The Mets will need to breathe the fresh Rocky Mountain air after the MLB teams they have faced before the Rockies.

Tickets should be hard to get for the first homestand in July. The NL Central champion Brewers kick it off and are followed by the Yankees. Imagine trying to get tickets to a Subway Series game on the Fourth of July in New York?

If you want to circle a key run in the second half, it comes in August when the Mets will play 12 of 15 games at home. The opponents are the Giants, Guardians, Braves and Mariners, with a set in Milwaukee squeezed into the schedule.

Beware September! The Mets play 15 games on the road down the stretch while only having nine at home. It could be a make-or-break month