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.
