Will Leitch of MLB.com listed six winners of the trade deadline, and the Mets were among them. "The Mets, for all their talent and all that payroll, had clear holes: The bullpen, center field, the back of the rotation. They didn’t help out the rotation much, but they took care of the other two quite nicely," Leitch wrote.

The Mets didn’t disappoint in 2025’s MLB Trade Deadline. As promised by Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns, they reinvented their bullpen by adding three top-tier pieces (Gregory Soto, Ryan Helsley and Tyler Rogers) and upgraded at center field (Cedric Mullins).

With a revamped roster, the Mets are +850 to win the World Series, per DraftKings Sportsbook, only behind the Los Angeles Dodgers (+285), the Philadelphia Phillies (+800) and the Detroit Tigers (+800). With the trade deadline moves, New York now has a payroll of $339.8 million, per Spotrac.