David Stearns has steadily dropped breadcrumbs to his participant procurement technique.
In his year-plus with the Mets, Stearns has demonstrated that for gamers of their twenties with loads of prime years remaining and a excessive ceiling, he’ll advocate to make use of Steve Cohen’s cash aggressively.
Thus, final offseason, the Mets had been keen to match the Dodgers’ 12-year, $325 million bid for 25-year-old Yoshinobu Yamamoto and would have gone larger had the pitcher’s reps not advised them to cease as a result of Yamamoto wished to play with Shohei Ohtani in Los Angeles.
This offseason the Mets agreed to the biggest contract ever (years, signing bonus, whole {dollars}) with Juan Soto, who turned 26 in October.
