The Mets are paying their top two starters (Verlander and Scherzer) $87,000,000 this season. Those 2 players are more expensive than the entire payroll of 8 MLB teams last year. Verlander and Scherzer combined are going to be 77 years old when the season starts. The Mets are expected to have a payroll well north of 300 million next season and they are still linked to a number of high cost free agents, including Carlos Rodon, Brandon Nimmo, Mike Conforto and others.
Yeah, I am not sure what this is all about. If they wanted a SS, they should have targeted Correa then, he is a vastly better defender and would fit their team better. Not to mention, I am not sure why they always insist on targeting guys on long term deals. This is just a really bad fit. They dropped huge money on Harper and Wheeler and that has worked out.... but the other ones really haven't. Last year they dropped huge money on a couple of terrible defenders that strikeout too much. This year it is a SS that relies on speed for offense and defense.
I wasn’t suggesting that all of those guys would be on the roster. For example, if you sign Benintendi, I assume Brantley is out. I also don’t think both of Meyers and Leon would be rostered. The ultimate roster would probably look like: 2B Altuve SS Peña DH Yordan 3B Bregman RF Tucker 1B Abreu LF Benintendi CF McCormick C Maldy Bench: C: Lee OR Y Diaz OR Free Agent OF: Meyers OR Leon INF: A Diaz INF/OF: Free Agent
Dude where did you get that I am obsessed? I made exactly 1 comment on what I thought, how is that obsessed? Yes it's presumptive but you are also being presumptive because neither of us actually knows how their minds were made up but for some reason my reasons bothered you, why is that? Nobody said that Kate was dying to leave Houston or that she no longer wanted to be here, so I don't know what she's saying he chose the right team has to do with anything. You are the one that seems obsessed by all of this, not me. Rich people live different places year round, who knew?
And yet they'll still turn a major operating revenue profit for the year... these teams aren't losing money. Even the small market teams are making a **** ton more than they're letting on...
What lightning? We dominated the playoffs and have made 3 out of the last WS's that's not lightning striking are you actually trying to say that Contreras or somebody like him is the difference in those WS's? We have made improvements and are looking to make more, which further strengthens the fact that we don't need to make minimal upgrades to hitting from the catcher.
Well, yeah, it is reflected in the selling price for these teams. Consider how seldom that the lower value franchises are sold, why is that? Someone is making a lot of money. Honestly, the only time that we really see franchises for sale are when someone that owns a team makes really bad investments outside of the team and has to liquidate the team, when there is a divorce or sometimes when an owner is old and wants to get his assets in a position to liquidate when he dies.
For their entirety, no... but they're not looking at them like that. They're looking to just win at least one WS to justify it. Teams that offer these deals can afford the expected down years, hence why ownership allows them. That being said, the Turner deal is a massive overpay that only gets allowed because of the Phillies getting hot at the right time in an expanded playoffs.
With JV gone that is one less starter who will require Maldy as his personal Catcher. I think the next move might be for Vázquez or Contreras. Did someone say something about Crane being concerned about Willson's clubhouse presence?
I even see those options no longer really justifying selling a team, unless the owner really just doesn't want him or his family to be a part of it... the internet revenue, streaming revenue, continued TV revenue and unlimited advertising/licensing revenue has opened plenty more reasons to own a sports team, vs. traditional "attendance/merchandise" that once made up the bulk of a team's finances. I once thought Crane would likely sell when this run was about up... but they've barely scratched the surface of re-devloping the land they own around MMP, and just when that gets optimized... it will be time to possibly build a new ballpark in private land area where they can control even more of the profits.
Wonder if the Astros could be the mystery team involved on Aaron Judge. MLB Network just mentioned a mystery team.