Yes. After luxury tax payments the Mets payroll will be almost half a billion(!) dollars.Moving to 3B? Lindor at short, right?
That's a lot of money for the Mets to still not win the division.Yes. After luxury tax payments the Mets payroll will be almost half a billion(!) dollars.
What a sham. The luxury tax model is what is broken with MLB.Heard online the Mets will pay more in luxury tax than 10-12 teams' total payroll.
What a sham. The luxury tax model is what is broken with MLB.
I understand no one is turning down a massive contract, neither would I, but something has to fundamentally shift in baseball, the parity is essentially non existent.
"Small market" owners can spend the money instead of crying poor. That would go a long way.
I can’t remember the book I was reading but George Steinbrenner had a quote when a reporter asked him if it was fair to the small market teams that he was signing the biggest free agents- “Calvin Griffith could buy and sell me every day of the week and twice on Sundays.”"Small market" owners can spend the money instead of crying poor. That would go a long way.