With all I've been reading of late about how the Mets are now ready & looking to spend this off season, don't be surprised if most of the New York moves come from that OTHER NY team.
It's not just about spending money. It's about making smart moves. You can spend a ton of money on complete busts. I'd rather have the right player or players than the most expensive ones. The Yankees have been making that mistake over and over.
I don't know about that, there team payroll was only 94M this past season & now they have Santana's 20M coming off & I believe a nice chunk of Bay's remaining salary coming off. So the money is there. How they spend it as Mess mentioned is another story.
The Mets have stunk for long enough that they better have some good chips in the farm, and it appears they do, but moving forward I doubt they compete, the owners and GM are just not winners.
Any one can spend but as Mess pointed out, the question is how one spends. The Yankees could spend more money but the Mets may spend more wisely. Or...visa-versa.
Bingo, they need to go back to the bang for the bucks combo of farm, trades, and free agents that worked in the Nineties. The farm will take time to bring up but they can try to get better cheaper. Hate to admit this but Boston laid out a pretty good team by adding mercenaries like Gomes, Napoli, Victorino and the like. Our GM got the Wells, Overbays, Brignacs and see where they got the Yankees.
I think many of us have taken one nightmare of a season and gone overboard because of it. It's not like the Yankees fielded a $50 million team this year. They did spend well over $200 million but clearly nothing seemed to work out.
Figure to bring his name up since the pirates are finally back in the playoffs the dimished mind of a soon to be 40 year old
The Bonilla contract is what occurs when you have bad baseball people owning teams. It's not shocking the shape the franchise has been in for years and years.
