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It's not "Better spent" nothing in Syndergaard's QO or offer procludes ANYONE from spending other money. It's not related. there is no salary cap. Breaking: cranky prospect guy over-values draft pick. Look, if the Mets can swing that draft pool money bonus as a way to sign someone EXCELLENT they might not otherwise have been able to, this works out, but there's no reason to think there's some sort of calculated plan here when the people, supposedly, going to make those decisions aren't even here yet. The logic from the Angels side is that Thor wasn't going to accept like 2/25 or something, where you try to ship this year in hopes that he's bolstered for next year. You HAD to pay him at least $20 this year or he would've taken the QO. That's pretty clear. The Angels are going for it, and even 20 starts of 100 IP from him is light years above "just sign a back end starter to replace him" nonsense that Law's pitching there for the Mets. The Mets were supposed to WIN last year. They could've, if they made better signings, spent more money, had better personnel in place or handled injuries differently. There's a lot of turnover now, but this wasn't a team that was supposed to be retooling for 2024+, which is the only way getting a stupid pick and losing a top pitcher makes sense.

Bob Alpacadaca wrote: The Angels might have done us a favor. We can spend that money on a pitcher who doesn't have as many question marks and can throw breaking balls. those don't exist, and the ones that do suck. The two home run game was fun. I liked how he changed his twitter header image to lightning striking over each city the Mets visited in the 2015 playoffs. He was a dominating presence and fun to watch, and he seemed to have a sense of humor (Even if his Twitter feed is probably mostly run by someone else) and could poke fun at himself. I'll miss him.

I dunno if qualifying offers are sticking around anyway.

=ashie62 post_id=81235 time=1637166175 user_id=90] Sore armed pitchers are a dime a dozen. Noah is replaceable. I can look at him on someone else' IR. He went to a bottom dwelling team that sucks every year despite having two of the best talents in the game so he can live with that. Yes on Stroman, that's easy.

"fucking ludicrous" is part of the CBA negotiation. (Also Eudoxie Mbouguiengue) It's such a stupid statement that I can't believe (well I can, it's Ken Rosenthal) anyone is actually trying to spin it as universal industry reaction. Oh, 2.5 million above the QO rate is crazy? No, it's basically the same damn amount (not to Noah). Obviously a guy who's job it is to pay players as little as possible and preserve vast riches for owners is going to balk at a guy "unofficially" raising the QO rate. But hey, Syndergaard put up 15 rWAR for the Mets and only got paid $30 million. that's a fucking steal. And yes, he's a pitcher and got Tommy John. That's common. You paid him $20 million to rehab? okay, but then you only spend $10 million for 15 rWAR which is outrageous.

well, that wasn't really a concern of theirs for the agenda anyway. Wonder if they bothered to vet him with any women this time.

There's probably some dirt behind the scenes here, but this is a huge blow to a team that already needed good pitching.

That draft pick is worth like 5X value!

ARSON! We've decided the next guy is gonna do ARSON! geeze, it's like you don't even listen to the pod. ;-)

seems..fine. I mean, Cohen and Alderson are still above him so who knows what role he even has.

'meaningful fact' or 'trivial detail' MONTHS after the incident. This is also after the childish behavior by similar reporters (I don't remember if Puma was one of them at the time) absolutely just disrespectfully harassing players for more details they'd already declined to want to talk about, all while very salient questions about like, the game or THE NEXT DAY'S STARTING PITCHER went unasked. I just ask that they guys respect the players. No means no. This is why they shouldn't be allowed in the clubhouse.

the story 5 months in the making. SO ENLIGHTENING! it gives a few details to things we basically already knew! Go further and tell me if the front office purposely moved McNeil away from 2nd, got Javy instead of OF help and then played McNeil in the OF over Davis all because of this nonsense? THAT would be the story. The Atlanta teams thanks them for it though.

I Mean, Cano is easy. he's there. you have all offseason, and it's silly to cut someone before you have to for any other reason anyway. But we don't even know like, if the season is going to start on time. All the rules could change, from DH, to years of control, to anything else.

they are in violation of the rules of major league baseball. It's just roster record-keeping stuff. Jacob just couldn't find anything else to make his list important. He might as well have included "Activate Thomas Szapucki from the 60 day IL"

IS anyone acting in the role? It's just Sandy right? He probably is the one always having to empty the keurig container too.

Frayed Knot wrote: It sounds like that's a very (artificially) loud stadium down there. I mean, all these stadia are artificially loud these days but this one even more than usual it seems, a good chunk of which is likely MLB directed. The organist there still gets his/her chops in (like playing 'I'm a Little Teapot' for Jose Altuve the other day) but it's being squeezed-out/drowned-out by the piped-in stuff. they need to make sure you hear the racism. At least they didn't win it at home, now hopefully the Astros can keep them from winning at all.

hate it. screw Atlanta

Got us an extra day to get the POBO in place. I mean, also screw Atlanta. At least this is an easy rooting WS.

The Mets have a window of exclusivity with pending free agents that's X number of days after the end of the World Series. (true of everybody) They don't have to make qualifying offers, etc, until then. It gives the Mets more time to have someone in place that would, presumably, have input into those decisions.

Stupid Atlanta. Oh well, Astros can take the next four.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Somebody win the Series in 4 so we can get to the important stuff. arguably we want it to go 7 so the Mets have more time to actually hire someone to do all the things they need to do.

'organization policy'? which GM? the first, the third? the interim guy? Somebody's personal assistant? maybe they decrypted Cohen' blockchain nonsense and it said 80 so they went with it.

I don't know if this was more Rojas or something about Hefner, but the Mets starters were badly under-used in terms of pitch counts and they're gonna have to get A LOT more high-quality relievers if they intend to keep under-utilizing the starters.

just let deGrom player/manage then.