I’m not sure what’s happening here — what it is ain’t exactly clear. But there’s one thing I know for sure.

Whatever it is, it isn’t David Stearns’ fault.

Stearns’ Mets fell to an almost unthinkable 22-32 after continuing bullpen and lineup failures led to two more losses in a doubleheader sweep at the hands of the Dodgers, MLB’s second priciest team. The Mets — who are, yes, the priciest team — now hold the fifth-worst record in MLB and are on pace to go 66-96. So of course, it’s no surprise some folks are saying Stearns is just a small-market GM, or worse. None of it is close to fair or true. This isn’t his team, by price more than 90 percent of it isn’t (more on that calculation below). This isn’t his mess.

The Mets’ baseball president was given ample opportunity (by me and others) to pile on about the terribleness that preceded him in his once-a-homestand state of the Mets interview session, and to his credit, he didn’t take the opportunity. He painted an accurate portrayal of their reality — “we haven’t played well enough … we haven’t played like a playoff team” — but he didn’t point fingers (truth be told, he has barely enough fingers per previous faux pas).

And since he didn’t, we will have to do the dirty work. (More on the many mistakes below.)

Before anyone trashes Stearns, let’s examine how he’s doing.

His biggest winter deal went to Sean Manaea, who got $28 million over two years and can opt out after this year, which he probably will do. Manaea has pitched like No. 3 starter at worst, which makes him a relative bargain.

Stearns spent $13 million on Luis Severino, the talented long-time Yankee and self-described “worst pitcher” in the bigs last year, and he’s been dominant at times.

Stearns spent $8.5 million on Harrison Bader, and Bader is bringing sterling defense in center field and extremely clutch hitting, especially by Mets standards. One could quibble and say Stearns could have waited and found a cheaper center fielder (Michael A. Taylor went for half that later).

Stearns allocated $2 million to Jorge Lopez, who’s been a bullpen plus.

The only deal of real consequence that hasn’t produced much is the trade Stearns made with his former Brewers team. Tyrone Taylor is solid but he’s Bader lite, and original rotation mate Adrian Houser had to be demoted to the bullpen.

J.D. Martinez for $12 million is just getting started. Jake Diekman has been fair for $4 million, Joey Wendle was bad and is gone for $2 million and Shintaro Fujinami hasn’t appeared for $2 million.

Still, in total, that represents only about 7 percent of what his predecessors spent in free agency/extensions. This isn’t on him.

Before Stearns arrived, $1 billion dollars-plus in multi-year contracts was handed out to players that Steve Cohen’s still paying.

The largesse went to future Hall of Famers and frenemies (Max Scherzer $130 million, Justin Verlander $86.7 million), an All-Star shortstop (Francisco Lindor $341 million), an All-Star outfielder (Starling Marte $78 million), a record-setting closer (Edwin Diaz $102 million), a potential ace (Kodai Senga $75 million), a former batting champion (Jeff McNeil $50 million), a star on the rise (Brandon Nimmo $162 million) and a fellow who must be a champion negotiator (James McCann $42 million), plus a trio of relative cheapies — Eduardo Escobar ($20 million), Jose Quintana ($28 million) and Omar Narvaez ($15 million).

Not one of those deals looks like a bargain. Just ask yourselves this: Do any of these players regret signing?

The one for McCann is especially perplexing. The Mets probably should have signed J.T. Realmuto.

The pre-Stearns Mets actually called Realmuto and suggested they’d pay “about $125 million” if he went early, but to his camp it seemed too quick. He wound up signing for $115.5 million. Perhaps he was one guy who preferred to be in Philadelphia. (You can’t blame him the way things have turned out.)

The players who did sign are better than their numbers, which brings hope better days lie ahead. Nimmo has been especially unlucky. His expected batting numbers are actually excellent (he’s 10th in expected wOBA at .398), though that isn’t doing much good at the moment.

Lindor brings very good defense, he posted a 30-30 season last year and is an upbeat presence in the clubhouse. But he isn’t living up to his contract, and it’s not helpful to have a .210 hitter batting third or first.

McNeil hasn’t been the same player since signing. There was a thought in the organization at the time that he’d be even better once the shift was outlawed, and he may be the one player where the opposite appears true.

Stearns said these are “quality players” with “track records” and expects that when we all look up at the end of the year they’ll be having seasons they, we and everyone else expects.

Maybe so, but before Stearns led the baseball operation, a case could be made that there was only one deal that looks like a bargain today. That may be the near-record deal for about $50 million guaranteed (plus incentives) that went to Stearns himself.