Mets fire Carlos Mendoza amid nightmare season despite having baseball's largest $330M payroll

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The New York Mets' season has hit rock bottom, and they are making a major change in the clubhouse.

Carlos Mendoza, who took the team to a National League Championship Series in his first year as an MLB manager in 2024, has been relieved of his duties.

A nightmare season for the Mets reached a tipping point on Thursday night when the Mets were swept in four games by the Chicago Cubs. They have been outscored 58-22 during their current six-game losing streak, and they are 13 games under .500, the lowest mark of the season.

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New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza returns to the dugout after a pitching change during the seventh inning against the Washington Nationals at Citi Field in New York City on April 29, 2026. (Heather Khalifa/Getty Images)

Since June 13 last year, the Mets are 72-102.

This was nearly impossible to predict because the Mets have the largest payroll in baseball at nearly $330 million, but a 12-game losing streak in April has been impossible to overcome.

After owning the best record in baseball at one point last summer, the Mets suffered an epic collapse to miss the postseason on the final day of the season. Afterward, President of Baseball Operations David Stearns overhauled the roster, and none of it has worked.

The Mets let Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz walk in free agency while trading Jeff McNeil and Brandon Nimmo, and brought in Jorge Polanco, Luis Robert, Bo Bichette, Devin Williams and Luke Weaver. Polanco has not played since April 14 and Robert since April 26, while Bichette is on pace for, by far, the worst full season of his career. Williams owns a 4.44 ERA