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9 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2024.09.19)”
I’m not so sure the Mets will go all in on Soto. After paying Scherzer and Verlander each $43m per year and watching that fail hard, hopefully Cohen has learned his lesson about trying to buy a WS appearance. Sure, they’ll be interested, but Stearns may be more interested in value signings.
This season was driven by Stearns’s smart offseason signings. The Severino and Manaea signings were monstrously successful at bargain prices, but both are either going to be gone or want big $ to return.
The Mets are going to have to rebuild the rotation around Senga, one of Peterson/Megill (no way both have turned the corner…) and then what? Scott’s gone. I guess Sproat is a good candidate, but he’s young and who knows if he makes the leap well. Maybe Stearns invests a lot of “Soto money” on pitching, instead?
Soto isn’t leaving the Yankees.
There’s a huge difference between signing 37/40 year old players to large contracts and signing a 26 year old to a large contract.
There’s of course no such thing as a “safe” 10+ year contract, but I can’t fathom a Soto contract I wouldn’t be delighted about as a Yankee fan if we re-sign him.
Would 15 years/$600 million do it? 😉
Josh Hart supporting Fred Katz’s move:
https://x.com/joshhart/status/1835779125878911375
The Mets are getting like $60M worth of value from Francisco Lindor this year on a $34M contract. Signing blue chip position players in their primes is one of the better ways you can spend your free agent dollars.
I think Soto will ultimately end up with the Yankees, but I also believe Cohen will be the highest bidder. He’s not going to get outbid on Soto.
On the opening day of free agency, the Mets will have about $130M coming off the books. They’ll need at least two starting pitchers, a replacement for Alonso, and two outfielders. They can probably capably fill every other position internally, with plenty of depth in the form of young position players who are close to MLB-ready and veterans like McNeil and Marte who will be in the final years of their contracts.
Adding Soto moves them from the marginal wild card-ish contender they are now to an almost sure playoff bet for the forseeable future. It’s the right place on the win curve to sign a player like Soto. The Mets are in the position to be able to add a $60M AAV contract and still have money left over to fill other needs. They’d still have $70M to get the two starting pitchers (one top of rotation guy plus one innings eater, say) and the first baseman. Or they could move Vientos to first (he hits enough) and find a better defensive 3B instead.
They’re in a shockingly good position. Stearns knows what he’s doing and the Mets should be formidable going forward.
I honestly don’t know if I’m crazy or if I’m seeing things perfectly clearly, but when I look at the history Scott Boras and contract growth I see this headed to a $1 billion contract. 15 years, $1 BN, that’s my guess.
I also think Hal is looking for an excuse to get out of paying this guy, and that number will give it to him.
sign this man!
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