Mets 2024 Season

[paultzman]

 

[bucketshardy]

Let’s just say that Mr. Steinbrenner is no longer around. However the Mets will find a way to screw this up as well….. Can you say Verlander?

haters gonna hate

 

[Silly Donovan]

haters gonna hate

No it’s called friendly banter between fans. If ya can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

 

[Knight]

As a Yankee fan I'm glad we did not go as high as the Mets. Soto is a really good hitter, but his ask was way above his value. Let see what happens next season.

 

[Spocky Ramone]

thats wild... .237 gets you 17mm... leaving to take my kid out of school right now and heading to the cages lol

And teach him to throw left handed

 

[kranmars]

As a Yankee fan I'm glad we did not go as high as the Mets. Soto is a really good hitter, but his ask was way above his value. Let see what happens next season.

Any Yankee fan that uses this narrative is not fooling anyone. Stop pretending the Yankees showed discipline and constraint.

They went 16/$760=$47.5 million per year. Only $3.5 million less than the Mets. They even offered $60 million signing bonus as compared to $75 million from the Mets.

Soto may just have wanted to come to the Mets. He and Lindor are tight and he may like the direction the Mets are going better than the Yankees.

 

[CBA69]

Very clever.

 

[Knight]

Any Yankee fan that uses this narrative is not fooling anyone. Stop pretending the Yankees showed discipline and constraint.

They went 16/$760=$47.5 million per year. Only $3.5 million less than the Mets. They even offered $60 million signing bonus as compared to $75 million from the Mets.

Soto may just have wanted to come to the Mets. He and Lindor are tight and he may like the direction the Mets are going better than the Yankees.

Met fans are desperate for a return to relevance. The Soto signing is a good first step.

 

[dk423]

Lindor was the first step.

 

[kranmars]

Met fans are desperate for a return to relevance. The Soto signing is a good first step.

Yeah, this was a pretty good first step.

If a first step is going into the Yankees bedroom, doing a little flexing, and running off with the model wife, then I agree.

 

[Knight]

Yeah, this was a pretty good first step.

If a first step is going into the Yankees bedroom, doing a little flexing, and running off the model wife, then I agree.

Let's see how this plays out. 15 years at that price is big.

 

[bucketshardy]

Let's see how this plays out. 15 years at that price is big.

can someone explain... slowly... what this 5 year opt out is? is it a player opt out / team opt out... ?

 

[dk423]

can someone explain... slowly... what this 5 year opt out is? is it a player opt out / team opt out... ?

Its what Gerrit Cole had this year. Basically, player is allowed to opt out. But, the Mets can void it if they add five mill per year on the rest of the contract.

 

[bucketshardy]

Its what Gerrit Cole had this year. Basically, player is allowed to opt out. But, the Mets can void it if they add five mill per year on the rest of the contract.

but say... for whatever reason... the marriage isnt working... The Mets* can't opt out after 5? Soto playing like dogsh*t/hurt/ whatever... we are stuck with him for another 10?

 

[dk423]

but say... for whatever reason... the marriage isnt working... The Mets* can't opt out after 5? Soto playing like dogsh*t/hurt/ whatever... we are stuck with him for another 10?

Yeah, Mets can't opt out of it. They can only retain him if he opts out

 

[mjmaherjr]

Some ( not all ) of the yankee fans here wishing they had some of that P Diddy party lube

 

[Delaware]

You're right. Now I feel the pressure. Damn it, the Yankees always get the best of us! Now we will proably lose Alonso to you guys also.

No thanks. As good a guy as Alonso is, you can keep him.

 

[Beasts of the East]

No thanks. As good a guy as Alonso is, you can keep him.

I hope we do. He had an off year and with Soto's OBP it's difficult to pitch around him.

 

[kranmars]

Let's see how this plays out. 15 years at that price is big.

Once again, the Yankees went 16 years and only $3.5 million less per season, which comes out to $760 million instead of $765 the Mets offered in total value.

The Yankees went all in here too. Would you have complained about that price being too big over 16 years if Soto signed with the Yankees?

Try the other vine. Yours appears sour. The grapes I am eating are rather sweet.

 

[jackfro]

Apparently the Yankees offered Soto 16 years $760 million. Slightly less than the Mets. So they went all in for him too and did not think the money was ridiculous.

I will gladly take Soto and the pressure that comes with it. The Mets are not done. They are aiming for the the Dodgers, not the Yankees.

Exactly, why aim for the Yankees, they have not done anything for years. Why aim for low hanging fruit. The Dodgers are way closer to the pinnacle the Mets want to achieve than the Yankees are.