Last winter, Terry Collins, Sandy Alderson and several of their players went on record saying they expected to be a postseason team in 2015, despite finishing with a losing record each of the previous six seasons.
They didn’t just get to the postseason, they got to the World Series, where they lost in five games to the Royals.
“Our expectations going into next season should be higher than our expectations were going into this season,” Alderson said Wednesday, looking forward to 2016. “We had talked about a winning record. We talked about 90 wins. We talked about getting into the playoffs. We made it to the World Series. Going into next season, we’re starting from a different plateau.”
The Mets will enter 2016 as National League Champs, a title held by only two teams — the Giants and Cardinals — since 2010.
“I told them we will now be the hunted,” Collins explained, speaking about his message for the team after Sunday’s Game 5 loss to the Royals. “When they all finally get some energy to realize what it took for them to just be sitting in those chairs the other night, next year, the effort’s got to be even more because it’s going to be that much harder. No longer are we going to sneak up on anybody. And I love that, you’ve got to walk out there with a little bit of swagger that we’re legit and this isn’t a fluke.”
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