5 NY Mets players who definitely won't be back next season

2. Cedric Mullins

This needs to happen for all parties involved. I'm not sure how Mullins expected his tenure with the Mets to go. I know he didn't expect, even in his wildest nightmares, for it to go this bad, though. I also know that the Mets' organization and fans are in the same boat. It was, at worst, a solid acquisition at the time. It's turned into the type of scenario that has been closing my eyes when Mullins comes up to bat and muttering to myself like I'm Frank the Tank.

It's not as though he was Babe Ruth in Baltimore this season before we traded for him. But he wasn't what he has become. In 91 games with the O's this season, he had a .229 batting average and .738 OPS, compared to a putrid .183 and .569 in 41 games with the Mets, respectively. You don't need to read Moneyball or dive into sabermetrics to realize that he absolutely must go.

Is it ideal to give up your 14th and 30th prospects for an abysmal quarter-season rental? Obviously not. But at this point, it's better to stop the bleeding than infuse new money into the soon-to-be free agent after such a bad experience in Queens.

3. Ryne Stanek

It would be incredibly unfair to pin a generous portion of the failure pie chart on Stanek, a middle reliever who the Mets wouldn't have (and shouldn't have) had to rely on so heavily if not for injuries. But in his two and a half seasons and 81 appearances as a New York Met, he has not been good – plain and simple.

The numbers stop short of being historically bad. But they are still very poor. An ERA of 5.01, 8.7 hits-per-9, and 5.2 BB-per-9 is a bad year. And when you expand it out to his entire Mets tenure, he has an ERA of 5.54. The bullpen is going to need a facelift, and his subtraction will be an easy start to that, given his expiring contract.

I like that he was named after Ryne Sandberg. That's pretty cool and unique. Other than that, there's not much to miss when he inevitably heads out the door.