Well if Koosman's getting it anyway, what the hell, I'll put him down. In order of when I think they should hold a ceremony for the remainder of my choices, for me it's Hernandez, Carter, Wright, joint McGraw/Franco, and Beltran.
Fred Wilpon found $180 million somewhere to buy back a 12% stake in the Mets that had been sold to Comcast and Charter Communications in 2012. This puts the valuation of the team at around $1.5 billion, somewhat lower than the $2.1 billion Forbes estimated last year. https://nypost.com/2019/03/24/mets-owner-fred-wilpon-values-team-much-lower-at-only-1-5b/https://nypost.com/2019/03/24/mets-owner-fred-wilpon-values-team-much-lower-at-only-1-5b/
This is a wonderful day. The Mets have been so bad historically at taking care of their homegrown guys. Hopefully this is a signal to the guys next in line that they'll be taken care of.
What SI *should* be in this day and age is a web-focused hub of long-form sports journalism, with the absolute best sports photographers on the planet. Instead, it's clung to a dying model and let all its talent walk out the door.