Lol 

I got to be honest, baseball kind of sucks when the Mets can roll with a +$300M payroll.  Really fucking lame.

That’s crazy!!!

Cohen is singlehandedly inflating the FA market lmao

1 minute ago, Chicago White Sox said:

I got to be honest, baseball kind of sucks when the Mets can roll with a +$300M payroll.  Really fucking lame.

Every team can afford the contract Nimmo just signed. What is the point of being a billionaire, owning a baseball team, & not doing everything possible to try and win?

Also, sell fucking everything

Wowser. Hilarious to hear Jerry cronies claim this team lost money last year. 

Just now, maxjusttyped said:

Every team can afford the contract Nimmo just signed. What is the point of being a billionaire, owning a baseball team, & not doing everything possible to try and win?

It’s not this contract, it’s the fact they’re going to spend 4x some clubs.  The competitive balance in baseball is broken.

1 minute ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

Wowser. Hilarious to hear Jerry cronies claim this team lost money last year. 

I need Cohen to offend JR enough that he pulls another Albert Belle signing. 

Just now, Chicago White Sox said:

It’s not this contract, it’s the fact they’re going to spend 4x some clubs.  The competitive balance in baseball is broken.

4x? They spent 6x the smallest payroll last year.

Wowza.

2 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

It’s not this contract, it’s the fact they’re going to spend 4x some clubs.  The competitive balance in baseball is broken.

In the 90s and etc top teams were spending almost 7 times more than bottom teams.

Sox with Jerry as the owner have no shot in this environment. Mets also just signed Robertson.

The AAV seems pretty fair but I don't think a lot of people saw a 30 year old Nimmo getting 8 years given his injury history. 

2 minutes ago, fathom said:

Sox with Jerry as the owner have no shot in this environment. Mets also just signed Robertson.

Reinsdorf continuing to own the team given ~everything is a complete waste of everyone's time. He can't sell soon enough.

7 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

It’s not this contract, it’s the fact they’re going to spend 4x some clubs.  The competitive balance in baseball is broken.

Teams at the bottom who refuse to spend are a much bigger issue for competitive balance than what the Mets are doing.

8 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

Wowser. Hilarious to hear Jerry cronies claim this team lost money last year. 

Need to boo him and not attend games. Fans need to take a stand. Jerry's penny pinching is annoying. 

6 minutes ago, chw42 said:

The AAV seems pretty fair but I don't think a lot of people saw a 30 year old Nimmo getting 8 years given his injury history. 

The extra year doesn’t matter. It’s a way to keep the tax total slightly lower, if it helps you to think of this as $150/6 or even $150/5 that’s fine, anything after that is a bonus. The goal is to put a successful championship team on the field in the next 2-3 years. If they do, this more than pays for itself, and you’re already paying Scherzer and Verlander for those years and on them this is a rounding error/

The White Sox should have been in a position making moves like this one.

1 minute ago, maxjusttyped said:

Teams at the bottom who refuse to spend are a much bigger issue for competitive balance than what the Mets are doing.

Sure, but at the end of the day it’s MLB’s CBA that allows poor teams to cake in revenue sharing money and for rich clubs to spend without limits.  It’s beyond broken and I say that as fan of a franchise not horribly impacted by that.

Sell and pray this offseason doesn't become the new norm.

Damn Gina.

Ok, I understand my team is cheap but this right here is drunk spending.

No way this guy should have got anything North of $120 million.  

WTF 

Yeah I woulda bitched a little if he signed  somewhere for 120 or under…but no way we could/should have competed with this kind of offer.

$18 million for Grandal is a lot more palatable after all the drunk spending happening.