Tag: payroll

Breaking Down the Mets Current 2023 Payroll

We’ve updated the previous piece to include the signings of Brandon Nimmo and David Robertson.  With the Winter Meetings wrapped up, it’s time to take inventory of how much payroll the Mets have added with their signings of multiple starting pitchers, a trade for a legitimate high-leverage lefty reliever, and a Rule 5 Draft selection. The additions help fill the massive voids left...

Mets Have Highest Payroll in Baseball

Ronald Blum of he Associated Press is reporting that citing MLB figures, the New York Mets entered September with the highest payroll in the league. Blum writes that the Los Angeles Dodgers, who started the season as the top spender, fell into second due to Trevor Bauer’s suspension. They have not led the Majors in spending since 1989, when their total payroll was just $21.3 million. Entering...

Opinion: Time Running Out to Extend Francisco Lindor

With less than two weeks until Opening Day, the window to extend upcoming free agents will be coming to an end very shortly and that could certainly make things very challenging for the New York Mets, who are currently attempting to extend multiple players before the 2021 campaign begins. In total, the front office has been tasked with locating new deals for Francisco Lindor, Michael Conforto,...

Mets Shouldn’t Extend Noah Syndergaard Before This Season

With the calendar turning to March, Opening Day is now less than a month away, meaning there isn’t much time left for the New York Mets to extend multiple impending free agents before the regular season begins. While the focus is currently on the upcoming campaign, and rightly so, the Mets’ front office also has its hands full with taking care of some future business this spring, as...

Jennifer Lopez Becomes ‘Control’ Person, as A-Rod’s Group Won’t Fold

From everything that has been reported, the New York will be sold to Steve Cohen in the near future, with the sale likely to be wrapped up by November. Yet Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez won’t give up on their pursuit of buying the Mets, as they continue to make a push to land the ball club. According an article from the New York Post’s Joel Sherman, Lopez has been named the...

As Mets Bid Deadline Nears, Steve Cohen Still the Favorite

The sale of the New York Mets has been a wild ride, but one that is nearing its finish line as we are less than two weeks away from the final bids being submitted at month’s end. All reports paint this auction to be a two-man race between hedge-fund billionaire Steve Cohen and former player Alex Rodriguez, but no one can agree on who the favorite really is between the two. Due to his...

How Will The Pandemic Affect Future Big-Money Contracts?

As we all know, the Pandemic has brought major changes to our world in a variety of ways, both presently and for the foreseeable future. Sports are not immune to this either, and in the case of baseball particularly – the economic effects could have a lasting impact on how big-ticket free agents are paid going forward. But first let’s make sure that we understand this is not some...

Meddling Owners Breaking Hearts of Mets Fans

Fans were elated on December 4, 2019 when reports came out that billionaire Steve Cohen was in talks to buy a majority of the Mets franchise. Mets fans have grown sick of the penny-pinching, meddling, and generally incompetent duo of Fred and Jeff Wilpon. Cohen was expected to buy 80% of the franchise for $2.6 billion with a five-year plan that allowed the Wilpons to stay in the organization....

Mets Not Paying Carlos Beltran His $3 Million Salary

Ken Davidoff of the New York Post reports the New York Mets will not be paying recently dismissed manager Carlos Beltran any of his $3 million salary. According to Davidoff, this was partially a result of Beltran “clearly realized how badly he had erred and backed away from the table.” In lieu of any salary, the Mets did agree to contribute $200,000 to the Carlos Beltran Foundation....

Yes, Mets Fans, There Is A Santa Claus

In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote to The Sun asking, “Is there a Santa Claus?” The Sun’s storied response in an editorial became the stuff of legend, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” As an avowed seeing-is-believing guy, I never believed in this tale of a big jolly fellow who slides down chimneys on Christmas Eve and leaves behind a...

Mets Should Take A Long Look At Hyun-Jin Ryu

There seems to be an odd debate circulating on Twitter and talk radio on how the New York Mets should go about replacing right-hander Zack Wheeler, who just signed a five-year deal worth $118 million dollars with the Philadelphia Phillies. For some strange reason that I can’t wrap my brain around, you have a pretty significant swath of the fan base saying that we don’t need to...

Steve Cohen Planning To Spend

As reported by Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic, the Mets ownership will see a change in the foreseeable future. Sterling Partners, which is owned by the Wilpons, have been in talks with billionaire Steve Cohen about increasing his stake in the team. It has been stated by the Mets that the Wilpons will continue their operations for the next five years. Only then would Cohen assume his role with...

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