Throughout my trip the previous few weeks, a plugged-in agent instructed me it was his sense that the Mets weren’t enjoying on the high of the beginning pitching marketplace for Corbin Burnes and Max Fried.
These starry starters stay out there in free company, so there’s nonetheless a wait-and-see on what the Mets’ full intentions are, particularly as a result of they seemingly want so as to add three rotation items and Steve Cohen’s largesse all the time means they’ll play in any market.
However with a two-year, $34 million settlement with Frankie Montas, the David Stearns Mets are forming a sample on how they view free-agent starters — assume short-term offers with upside — which is why they’ve inquired on Walker Buehler, amongst others.
When Yoshinobu Yamamoto was out there final offseason — the primary by which Stearns led the Mets baseball operations division — Cohen and Co. matched the 10-year, $325 million bid that in the end gained for the Dodgers. There additionally was a $50.2 million posting charge past that and short- and long-term luxury-tax implications.
