The Mets constructed a roster that was very accomplished, very rich and, in baseball terms, very old.
Fans should never care about a billionaire’s finances, though, and the point is not that younger players are cheaper. More like him, please.īuilding around Alvarez - and those who may follow him to Flushing - will keep the Mets from spending so much in an effort to win. The best part of this lost season has been the emergence of Francisco Alvarez, the slugging 21-year-old catcher who looks like a keeper. Either way, the organizational pivot is a good sign. Maybe the prospects from these trades, and others to come, will grow into stars. Cohen’s vision matches theirs: spend like a big-market bully while growing a farm system with the urgency of a small-market team that has no other choice. In the last decade, the Dodgers have won 73 more games than any other franchise, making the playoffs every season and reaching three World Series, winning one. Can’t get mad at anybody but yourself, but it stinks.” I’ve had a hand in that for why we’re in the position that we’re at. “We put ourselves in this position,” Scherzer told reporters at Citi Field on Friday after beating Washington, the only team trailing the Mets in the National League East. As part of the deal, Scherzer will exercise his $43.3 million player option for 2024. The agreement, which requires Scherzer to waive his no-trade clause, was confirmed on condition of anonymity by a person familiar with the negotiations who was not authorized to discuss them publicly. That deal signaled that the front office had lost hope, and the next one confirmed it: On Saturday, the team agreed to trade Max Scherzer, a starter destined for the Hall of Fame, to the Texas Rangers for Luisangel Acuña, the brother of Atlanta’s superstar outfielder, Ronald Acuña Jr.
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Cohen, committed nearly half a billion dollars this season to learn a timeless lesson easily forgotten when pursuing World Series glory: Money guarantees nothing.Įarly Friday morning, the Mets shipped the team’s closer, David Robertson, to the Miami Marlins for two teenage prospects. The most expensive roster in major league history was a failure.
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