New York Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns says the team's sprint over the final three months of the regular season played a role in

A new season is just beginning in a sense for Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns, but that doesn’t mean he’s gotten over the old one.

After a relatively austere offseason last year, the Mets once again plan to be big players in free agency. New York has around $180 million coming off its team payroll, and Stearns said that he expects to spend “a good portion of that.”