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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.