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If the physical scared the Giants enough to back out something didn’t look right at all. That contract will look absolutely terrible. But it no doubt makes the Mets better. The NL East is gonna be rough.
 
For the good of the sport, this needs to blow up in the Mets' face. You shouldn't be able to buy a championship in a professional sport.
 
msstate7 said:
For the good of the sport, this needs to blow up in the Mets' face. You shouldn't be able to buy a championship in a professional sport.
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Agreed. Money is driven my interest in the sport. Reducing competing balance like this will ultimately negatively impact it.
 
I still think we can compete in this division. We need rebound years out of Acuna and Olson, and just gotta hope age catches up with max and verlander.
 
bravesnumberone said:
You guys are really going to freak when the Mets grab Hendriks in a trade with the White Sox and add another $18M to the payroll.
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At this point, I hope they just go completely overboard. The Yankees, dodgers, and Red Sox will complain to mlb, and there will be a harsher penalty for going this high on salary.

I said it earlier in this thread, but the first step on hitting the luxury tax should remain the same - money hit. There should be another level where you lose your 2nd round pick and international spending money. If you hit the next level, you lose your 1st round pick and all your international spending money. On the teams that don't spend at all... you should also be fined for not meeting the threshold. If you don't meet it 3 years in a row, your team can be auctioned to one of the expansion sites. This is just a rough idea, but something to this effect
 
msstate7 said:
At this point, I hope they just go completely overboard. The Yankees, dodgers, and Red Sox will complain to mlb, and there will be a harsher penalty for going this high on salary.

I said it earlier in this thread, but the first step on hitting the luxury tax should remain the same - money hit. There should be another level where you lose your 2nd round pick and international spending money. If you hit the next level, you lose your 1st round pick and all your international spending money. On the teams that don't spend at all... you should also be fined for not meeting the threshold. If you don't meet it 3 years in a row, your team can be auctioned to one of the expansion sites. This is just a rough idea, but something to this effect
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At what point do we start penalizing teams for refusing to participate and attempt to be competitive? That's a part of the issue that can't be ignored.
 
The Mets must have been the next highest bidder and when the Giants started falling apart Boras called the Mets and they didn’t care about the medicals. I think the Correa deal will be bad bc out of the 4 SS he’s the one that can’t stay healthy. I don’t want AA to do something just bc our main competition did but he needs another legit bat on the roster.
 
Southcack77 said:
What exactly did Coppy do visibly wrong other than rebuild the Braves in three years and put them in position to win five straight division titles.

Sure being a secret world class cheat that would not admit it hurt pretty bad, but all the moves people panned and insisted were awful had very little negative impact.

Just as five years of bitching about the off-season and in game manageying have yielded five years where the team demonstrated fairly remarkable resilience.
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Coppolella deserves big-time scorn for the cheating because that has and continues to bedevil us, but I think he should get some credit for starting the rebuild and making some good foundational deals. There were times I thought he was the poster child for the "You Too Can be Successful with ADHD" campaign and I thought he misread the contention window and as a result made a couple of goofy now-for-later deals. The suspension probably spared the Braves of having to move on from him on their own as he had probably run his course.
 
I think it’s a fair comparison to assume the yearly revenue for the Braves and Mets are similar. The Mets salaries and tax bill will be almost 500 million. The Braves total revenue for 2023 will be in the 525 to 550 million range. So the Mets will be spending 90 percent of their revenue before they buy a baseball or charter a flight. The Mets have to be operating at a huge loss right now. I know the owner is a billionaire but even billionaires will get tired of pumping hundreds of millions in cash into a business every year.
 
Hudson2 said:
The Mets must have been the next highest bidder and when the Giants started falling apart Boras called the Mets and they didn’t care about the medicals. I think the Correa deal will be bad bc out of the 4 SS he’s the one that can’t stay healthy. I don’t want AA to do something just bc our main competition did but he needs another legit bat on the roster.
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Correa will be playing third as long as Lindor is there. And Cohen's spending won't stop with this year. Correa can move over to DH and lengthen his career and the productivity of the deal.
 
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