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out of interest - doe he get the MLB salary.?

Mise! glad that I still have a place to see what y’all think of stuff.

forgive me but I don't associate grand central with the mets except for getting on the 7 there for that reason I've voted for Willets Point, but I didn't really know who Ed Kranepool was when I arrived from the MOFO so what do i know!

so you're saying to me that Mexico and Italy can play each other and know that as long as Mexico win, by scoring four or fewer wins that they both go through and the "best squad" are knocked out. Could that possibly happen. You're damn right it could https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgrace_of_Gij%C3%B3n Since 1982 any competition where this kind of thing could happen has had simultaneous kick offs where practical.

Profar is joining a curious ensemble - Robinson Cano being the single biggest exhibit - in the tougher suspension era, of a guy who has got the guaranteed money risking a huge amount to 'get back to where he was'. After last year Profar was clearly on very thin ice, but all he had to do was NOT get caught using PEDs and he'd earn 30 million dollars. Now, he's halved that money and made it pretty unlikely that he'll ever get more then a Minor league NRI again after he collects his final 15 million. Why would you take the risk?

the street we live on is a relatively small terrace of 16 houses. There's a family who between the various elements inhabit four of the houses, then a bunch of people who've had the houses in the family for a long period of time. We moved into the house in 2003, it took until 2021 for someone 'unconnected' to the Terrace to move into one of the houses, so we spent about 17 years being described as "the new neighbours"...

Wow! Folks, I don't get the open hostility to someone making a reasoned proposal, or indeed Edgy for being interested in transitioning towards a situation where The Crane Pool absorbs less of his resources (be they brain power or monetary). I don't have the time to post very often, but I visit plenty and always take the temperature of the cranepool as one way of deciding how I feel about Mets developments. I find it hard to believe that I've been making the occasional post and reading for the best part of 30 years if you include the MOFO days. Ah Ambler how right you were about Rey Ordonez not getting next nor near a .720 OPS. I am not near enough a participant to have any input in any such decision, but all I'll say is I've always appreciated the chat here, and will continue to pop in - whatever guise it is in.

Dilson was one of those guys who I was irrationally enthusiastic about. A middle infielder putting up successive seasons of 900ish ops in AA and AAA. then prospect writers were saying the likes of this "Traded to the Mets in the August 2013 deal that sent John Buck and Marlon Byrd to the Pirates, Herrera excelled in his first year with his new organization. He began the season with Class A Advanced Port St. Lucie and ended it in Queens. The 20-year-old has an advanced understanding of hitting and has the makings of an offensive-minded second baseman." I thought we had ourselves a Roberto Alomar clone on the way...

This was what MLB Trade Rumours predicted in October Luis Torrens (5.105): $2.2MM Tyrone Taylor (5.093): $3.6MM David Peterson (5.089): $7.6MM Nick Madrigal (5.087): $1.35MM Tylor Megill (4.031): $2.6MM Max Kranick (3.011): $1MM Huascar Brazoban (2.170): $1.3MM Francisco Alvarez (2.164): $2.4MM Reed Garrett (2.143): $1.4MM ***** Max Kranick (3.011): $1MM and Nick Madrigal (5.087): $1.35MM both got kicked to the kerb - but what about Tyrone???

I am prepared to judge these moves "in the round" when all is said and done. The time to lock Pete Alonso was after year 2/3 of his big league adventure. He's the classic guy who if you'd bought out 2/3 years then you'd have done well - older college bat with old player skills- his free agency is always going to stray into the 'he could fall off a cliff' terriory Easy to say it now, but pre 2022 season going for something along the lines of 6*14 or so might have done it. Even last years deal was an overpay for what he brings to the table, but short-term it was fine, but years 3-5 of this one is going to be a 2win player who's costing a load of money and being league averageish. If we accept that MLB's penalisation of spending on players above a certain level does make everyone have limitations on their outlay, I definitely can accept that there were better ways of spending the $.

salary caps just make more money for owners.

That is bad news for those of us who thought we might get Pete Back at 3*30 or so...

I thought Edwin Diaz was great fun. I loved Narco, and he was at times a brilliant closer, but I trust people who know more about it then I do to make the judgement. There is plenty of people who report that Diaz' peripherals are on the way down south and that he's potentially very close to becoming a somewhat lesser version of himself. Leaving aside the fact that he's had bad runs already. Devin Williams had a bad April but otherwise was there or there abouts the best reliever in baseball for the last couple of years. I'm not sure what the actual best way to judge a reliever's production is - it probably isn't ERA - but I think I'd be 60/40 to saying Devin Williams will be better then Diaz over the next 3 years and therefore if you think that's what you're getting and it's 18 million cheaper then there you go. All that being said, I wish the industry wasn't so obsessed with roles and $ because it sure was fun to have him to play for us.

Jim Bowden predicts that he will get 6 years $182 million. I mean that strikes me as WAY too much. He has him as the third best free agent on the market, behind Tucker & Schwarber. Having said that last year he predicted 7 years $189 million and we know how that played out. I'm not sure I can imagine anyone else offering that length of contract at that rate.

I think he's going to get 4 years + from someone. I think it won't be us. Give me Pete @ 3*33 and I can cope, even though it's a massive over pay. Beyond that I think you are just making your life harder in the short-medium term.

I have no idea what Pete Alonso will get. I find it hard to believe that he's going to get a 4/5 year deal at a high AAV. Hey may get '2/3 more years' at his current AAV. Which would be a big enough bump from one year 24 million that was left on his option.

When do we hit the records for Mets in a season?

Just glad we signed him, a lot of people were suggesting Christian Walker ... Walker is hitting .207/.269/.350 for the Astros.

He didn't refer to the negotiations as asymmetrical but the contract offer that Alonso's people came back with. If you say their (mets) offer is 69 million over 3 years with no opt outs. (AAV of 23 million) and Alsono's people came back with 35+28+28 (the rumoured value was 91 million from memory) with an opt out after each season and a 10 million buy out of a 28 million player option fourth year at the end You could legitimately say Player has got high AAV Player has got guarantee of lots of money Player has very little risk - if he has the 50 HR season that Boras' charts no doubt project - he can decide whether he thinks theres a 5*30 out there for him I have no issue with them looking for it - but looking at the Teoscar Hernandez/Christian Walker/Jurickson Profar contracts it doesn't seem that there is a lot of people who want to give a good first basemen/slugger type on the slight decline that kind of money. So Cohen is saying we think we offered a reasonable contract - looking at what other people are getting (and this is definitely true) and the other guys said we needed to pay 40% more and the deal should give them some additional benefits that are also very valuable - and they are not conceding anything that we are concerned about. They are not helping us get to a place where we can meet in the middle. And you sort of go - unless we really want to pay this guy a lot more then other people are willing to for some specific reasons (eg going to be Mets HR leader if he stays, the fans like him, one club guy) we need to move on.