Bob Sacamano

Mets jumped into Correa sweepstakes a little too late. If Correa were available for them to sign, they would need to free up some money.

He explained it above.

Lol watch the deal fall through only for Cohen to swoop in and sign him.

Fair

Probably moot now with Ottavino re-signing with the Mets. Didn’t realize how great he was last year.

Meh. The problem isn’t that our highest paid free agent is Benintendi per se. It’s that the highest paid free dollar amount is only $75M. Should be someone else higher than that amount in the year 2022 for a major market team. Contract overall is fine.

Yeah I don’t think they would get Baty but I think getting catching prospect when they have a few isn’t that crazy. Maybe not Alvarez but Parada.

They don’t have to deal young players with EE or McCann if they are taking back bad money. But that’s not Liam. If they’re dealing either of those 2 and getting back Liam, they’re dealing a young player or two.

Well they are trying to move McCann and Carrasco to lower their tax hit.

They're paying $86M each season for 2 old SP. They're all in.

God, what a pointless fuckin argument no one else cares about.

Maybe, but if we are dealing Hendriks and receiving Chisholm (I assume this is what you mean), I don't see how we don't send someone else out from our minors in this deal.

Do it.

Yeah, I actually just saw his age and numbers from last year. Will be 34 soon and didn't play 2B at all last year.

Matt Carpenter to Padres

If the Mets have/want to cut some payroll (they do), I would take either of those guys as a toss in. Not as main pieces though.

"Go ahead, open your check book for *checks notes*. Ah yes, there is no longer any high leverage reliever to sign."

And this is fair.

And I think @Y2Jimmy0 is right that if traded, we will like what we get back. He's not getting traded as just a salary dump.

His option for '24 automatically gets picked up if traded right? So teams will know they are trading for 2 years?

They're not signing another every day OF when they have Benintendi, Robert, Colas eventually, and Eloy DH.

The Clevinger deal looks better every time a back-end SP signs.

I know they were shopping him. Gotta cut payroll where you can I guess.

Yep. Made sense to keep playing him.

Hmmm 2 years control of McNeil.