David Stearns saw no easy way out of Mets-Braves series debacle

MILWAUKEE — David Stearns isn’t pointing any fingers for the logistical fiasco the Mets could be facing over the next few days. In his first public comments since the final two games of the Mets-Braves series were postponed by Hurricane Helene, the Mets president of baseball operations on Friday said he is unsure there was any other viable option than for MLB to reschedule the games for Monday. If the games have any bearing on the NL wild-card race, a doubleheader will be played in Atlanta.If the games would just determine seeding, it’s up to commissioner Rob Manfred if they would be played.The NL wild-card series is scheduled to begin Tuesday. Stearns, before the Mets opened a three-game series against the Brewers at American Family Field, was asked if he was comfortable in the manner the situation was handled by MLB. “The truth is.

I don’t know,” Stearns said.“I don’t know what the right thing would have been.

Nobody wants to play a doubleheader Monday.The Braves didn’t want that outcome, MLB didn’t want that outcome and certainly we didn’t want that outcome.” Among the possibilities was that the teams, knowing the weather forecast, could have played a doubleheader Tuesday.

But the Braves pushed to keep the series as scheduled and MLB complied with those wishes.Moving Wednesday’s game to the afternoon was another option, but it’s unclear if that would have helped — there was intermittent rain early in the afternoon before a steady downpour began around 2:30 p.m.

and the game was ultimately postponed. “I think it’s easy in retrospect to say we could have done things differently to get there,” Stearns said.“It’s also tough in the moment to predict exactly what the weather is going to do and there are a whole lot of considerations that everyone is working through to try to make the best decision possible.

The reality is we may have to play a doubleheader Monday.If we do, we will do the best we can. “This stuff ha...