The Mets let postseason hero Daniel Murphy walk to the division rival Washington Nationals, however, and did not do much to supplement their roster otherwise. Their winter was largely quiet, focusing on retention rather than upgrading. On the premise that the team would improve with their young talent and other prospects on the way, the Mets’ only true upgrade came with the addition of Cabrera at short.
The 2016 Mets ended up sneaking into the playoffs as a Wild Card team, where they’d lose in historic and dramatic fashion to Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants, and would not make the playoffs again until 2022. Despite their loaded crop of young talent, strong job of retaining talent and a hungry roster, the Mets would never get “back” to where they were in 2015, which remains the team’s most recent pennant.