Recent NY Mets history is altered under a 154-game schedule

Several changes have already been proposed by MLB to the MLB Player’s Association. One that both sides could very well agree on is a reduction from a 162-game schedule down to 154. Only 8 fewer games with some added postseason ones added in feels like something both sides could agree on. The purpose is to keep players healthy while generating some added playoff revenue. He might also help the New York Mets make the postseason.

There was no amount of games that would have saved the 2026 Mets from missing the postseason. What about 2025? We don’t have to go back far to see how if there was already a 154-game schedule instead, there would have been a much different outcome in Mets history.

Recent Mets history changes drastically with a 154 game schedule

Yes, it’s no exact science. The Mets played the Atlanta Braves in a doubleheader to finish off the 2024 season which, in a 154-game schedule, would have taken place earlier. Let’s avoid those details because there’s no telling how a restructured schedule could have completely changed the outcome of their year.

While the Mets did snag a Wild Card spot in 2024, their opponent after 154 games played would have put them somewhere other than Milwaukee. The Brewers and San Diego Padres had identical 88-66 records. However, Milwaukee led the NL Central and the Padres would have been the top Wild Card team.

Do the results stay the same or do they change? We never do get the Pete Alonso mash against Devin Williams. Does that mean he more freely walks after the season? Does it end there or do the Mets end up going further? Those are parts of this rewritten history nobody can answer with certainty.

It’s a more fun story in 2025. After 154 rounds of 9-inning fisticuffs, the Mets were 80-74. It was good enough for the third Wild Card spot. They had a 2 game lead over the Cincinnati Reds who would take the spot from them in Game 162.

The result would have had the Mets playing the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLWC. Surely not much fun to face them immediately, the shortened series could have given them a chance to steal 2 out of 3 more easily than needing 3 out of 5.

Back-to-back postseason trips for the Mets is a historic rarity. They’ve only done it twice…ever. The 1999 and 2000 clubs and later the 2015 and 2016 teams are it.

There are, of course, countless other examples where the Mets make it (or don’t) because of a shortened schedule. The 2007 collapse wouldn’t have come to be as after 154 games, the Mets still led the Philadelphia Phillies.

We can’t make any assumptions of all of the “what could have been” within Mets history and along with the proposal by MLB came other details like a best of 7 in the Divisional Series and a chance for the number three seed to pick their first round opponent.

What was, wouldn’t be the same under many of these new rules. An 8 game difference, while feeling minimal, easily changes a lot in just the last few seasons. In 2022, the Mets would have won the NL East over the Atlanta Braves and managed to skip over the first round with a bye. What’s the end result there?

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