METS SHORTSTOP CRYING SERIES
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METS SHORTSTOP CRYING SERIES

Braves fans, don’t jumpĮxpectations were set when, after Atlanta’s Division Series exit at the hands of the Phillies, team chairman Terry McGuirk discussed having a top-five payroll, and Liberty Media’s third-quarter revenue call, that showed $252 million in revenue, up from $234 million during the same period last year. If you’re a Braves fans and you’ve got that finger hovering over the panic button, let’s chat. But at the same time, no one’s ever spent this kind of paper, with more than three-quarters of a billion invested to dominate the East. and if you’re in Braves Country, you’re calling the Mets paper champs, with the reminder that nobody wins a division on paper. In fact, every year of this run of titles, the Braves haven’t been seen as the clear leaders.įrom that end, it’s the same old story. Same in 20, when PECOTA pegged New York to sit atop the East, while Atlanta added another banner. In 2021, with Francisco Lindor in the lineup, PECOTA made the Mets the East pick. Last season, a number of sportsbooks had New York as the division favorite after adding Max Scherzer to its rotation. Per DraftKings, that moved the Mets’ odds of winning the NL to +350 to the Braves’ +475 with the Phillies at +700 among those East contenders, and it’s likely every other projection service is going to follow suit in pumping up New York’s chances.īut isn’t this where the Braves have been living the past three years, operating in the Mets’ shadow?

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That was released before the Mets went and added 19.0 worth of projected fWAR with free agent deals for Correa, Justin Verlander, Brandon Nimmo, Omar Narváez, Jose Quintana, Adam Ottavino, David Robertson and Koadi Senga (who doesn’t have a forecast yet but pitched to a 1.89 ERA last year. It’s the new division story, same as the old division storyīack in November, FanGraphs’ ZiPS projected 2023 standings had the Braves projected to again sit atop the division at 96-66, followed by the Mets (84-78), Phillies (84-78), Miami Marlins (79-83), and Washington Nationals (67-95). That just solidified this as the most fascinating division in baseball, and the race for the top of the East gets us going in this week’s Starting Nine. The National League East has been represented in three of the last four World Series - by three different teams - and if it doesn’t happen again in 2023 by a fourth different team, it’s going to be seen as a major disappointment.

But whether you think Cohen’s bottomless coffers - which at this point has to be dwarf Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin - is good or bad for a league where one team is committing more money than the Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, and Kansas City Royals combined, Cohen’s checkbook and the gauntlet have been laid down. This isn’t making anyone feel better after seeing the Atlanta Braves’ free-agent spending limited to $1.4 million on outfielder Jordan Luplow, with another $875,000 to reliever Nick Anderson on a split deal, and watching Dansby Swanson leave for the Chicago Cubs, and we’ll get into all those feelings in a moment.

and the Mets may not be done, with rumors that they’re eyeing Chicago White Sox reliever Liam Hendricks and his $14 million salary. They now have a projected luxury tax payroll of $384 million, which will draw $111.5 million in tax payments (more than 10 team’s payrolls), pushing New York’s total bill to $495.5 million. With Wednesday’s bombshell signing of Carlos Correa to a 12-year, $315-million deal - after the San Francisco Giants pulled their $350-million offer for a reported issue with his medicals - the Mets have spent over $800 million this month alone. We all scoff at those Christmas car commercials, calling them unrealistic, down-right laughable, as people are gifted luxury vehicles with big red bows atop them.īut Steve Cohen? He sees them and decrees them paltry, meager even, as the New York Mets owner showed us all what it means to deliver a “December To Remember.”

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