Frayed Knot

I don't care what Cohen spends either. But if he starts making a habit of bad deals for the sheer splash of it then his is not going to be any more of a successful run than was the Wilpon's.

Yes it will, and maybe not signing Correa will ultimately be the better move given the MONEYBALL adage about it being easier to recover from the player you fail to sign than it is to recover from the one you sign at the wrong price. Theoretically this will come down to two factors: the determination of the NYM GM/medical people and whether Borrea has another fish on the line (Boras will of course claim he does) to pivot to if and when the Mets start making noises about fewer years and/or less money. My fear is that Cohen may want the big splash/surprise heroics of all this too much and decide to go ahead with the deal even if the advice of his paid experts tells him otherwise. Even if his side winds up being right in the long run it still sets an uneasy precedent.

=whippoorwill post_id=115519 time=1671918434 user_id=79] Jumping Jesus. Just don't sign him to so many years. How hard is that to figure out?

Yes, there have been no IL stints caused by the leg since he broke it in the minor leagues. But that doesn't mean it can't cause future issues as he ages and that's apparently what has caused both the Giants and now the Mets to think hard as to whether a decade-plus year commitment is a good idea. They may decide it is, they may want to renegotiate, they may back out altogether, or another team may jump in while they're thinking about it as has already happened once already. So stayed tuned for upcoming episodes of the Carlos Correa saga.

No, the deal is agreed to but is only complete conditional of a physical exam so that's where it sits now. His deal with SFG as in the same state and, when they wanted time to think about it, Boras peddled his client elsewhere. Same thing could happen here.

Players (and agents even more so) don't like to agree to what/if? kind of contracts because if they age faster than expected they feel the club will try to use any excuse to mix the remaining deal and blame the injury for the result even if unrelated to the decline. Plus, there will never be a better time than age 29 to get a multi-year deal. Boras and Correa (Borrea?) are denying that there even is an injury concern so they're not going to be anxious to agree to a deal with non- guaranteed money on account of it. But, so far at least, two out of two clubs seem to think that there is a concern.

He's not the Kimbrel he was, but he should strengthen a Phils pen which was already no longer a pushover.

Also, that statement, devoid of context, tells us nothing.

So the Mets are paying $19 million so McCann can be the Orioles backup C. Strange days indeed, most peculiar mama... Turns out that removing McC's contract will actually save the Mets more in lux tax money than the chunk that they're giving to the O's -- acc to DiComo on MLB.com Also, since we're apparently no longer announcing trades but go instead straight to the 'Memories of' thread, I had to look up what we're getting in return from Bal'mer ... turns out to be a PtbNL. Could turn out to be our next superstar (hey, yaneverknow

Benjamin Grimm wrote: =nymr83 post_id=115400 time=1671773092 user_id=54] I wonder which team will decide the talent is worth the baggage? Would we be all that surprised if it turned out to be the Mets?

=Fman99 post_id=115357 time=1671712830 user_id=86] I guess Billy Ladysnooch was not available.

On the whole parity/spending issue: I bring this up from time to time, mainly after I hear someone in sports media talk about how the NFL's hard salary cap has made that league the paragon of parity and equality while disparaging MLB as exactly the opposite. Except that over the last 20 years the results of MLB & NFL seasons are almost identical in terms of the number of different champions, the number of different contenders for championships, and also the number of teams on the outside looking in. Number of different World Series/Super Bowl winning franchises over previous 20 seasons: MLB 14, NFL 13 Number of franchises with at least a WS/SB appearance: MLB 20, NFL 20 # of franchises failing to make the 'final four' (Lg/Conf championship game): MLB 5, NFL 6 And this is not just some snapshot in time that happens to be more or less equal right now. I've been tracking this for years now and this is actually as close as it's been. The matchup usually tilts more in MLB's favor and this is before even factoring in the more liberal playoff system in football (for much of that 20 years there were 1.5x more playoff teams).

=Centerfield post_id=115340 time=1671682487 user_id=65] Kinda wishing I came up with a better thread title than I did. Certainly doesn't hold up to the standard around here. But I also kinda like that I came immediately to CPF and posted my immediate reaction.

btw, the C. C. deal is going to be a boon to the 'Wifey Watch' thread.

So this is certainly an interesting turn of events ... and that's even before we get to the part about little things like where he might play on the field or about how we're all going to feel about this say towards the end of the decade. I think Steve is in the 'what the hell' mode of thinking anyway and maybe thinks that this move will pay for itself on boosted attendance alone once he heard about how many Correans live in the Flushing area.

Ottavino from last year was what Lugo from several years ago was ... so this week's reliever news has an overall positive spin on it.

Goodbye Wayne Randazzo Definitely one of the oddest and least successful of the Elton John/Bernie Taupin collaborations.

Has been trending towards league average for several seasons now and just turned 38 a few weeks ago. Maybe playing at Fenway revives him until he expires like old milk, but that's a risk even in the short term.

Multi-year?!?!

Edgy MD wrote: He certainly chose the right year in which to have his best season. Yup. He did fade down the stretch though, possibly due to playing every game as he has over the past three seasons. Sometimes the best ability is availability.

It must be frustrating at times to Braves' fans that Atlanta is so comfortable in not going above their self-imposed ceiling even when it means losing home-grown All-Star fan favorites [Freddie and now Dansby ... not to mention Andruw, McCann, and Francouer of eras past]. But the seemingly ridiculous ease in which the team then pivots to a usually successful Plan B must ease the heartache a bit.

I keep seeing tabloid photos of Justin & Kate splahing around on some fancy beach somewheres, so I guess his intro needs to wait until their vacay rental expires.

Joey Gallo packs up his three true outcomes and heads for the two cities in Minnesota on a one year deal. I have no idea who first reported this.

More Hey Man!: Swanson's new wife plies her trade in Chicago. Might that give an in to the Cubs? They were bad in '22 but over .500 in second half so maybe thinking they're nearly back? LAD (just lost T. Turner) and Sawx (Bogaerts) also in on the Dansby sweepstakes. Braves still in though "cautious".

Hey Man!: Marlins, Cubs, Astros linked to Conforto. Doesn't say shit about the Mets.