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Geez…if you got a pay day of $765 million then the least you could do is make the All Star team, no? You would figure that if someone is commanding so much money…SO much money…that they would be considered, they would be included as, an All Star. I mean, you have to be a real star to garner that much money. But apparently not…not New York Mets superstar Juan Soto.
The New York Mets are off to a great start finishing the month of April with a record of 21-10, tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the best record in MLB to this point. Just as a reminder, the Mets had their best start to the season in 1972, with a record of 23-7 after 30 games. So before you start getting ahead of yourselves, the Mets finished in third place with a record of 83-73 in 1972.
With very few exceptions, you are never as good as you are when you are your very best, and never as bad as you are when you are at your worst. The Mets have rallied out to the 21-10 record without exactly being at their very best, and certainly not at their strongest.
Ya know…the fans so wanted to get Juan Soto. They were going to leave the country if the New York Mets didn’t sign Soto. Oh, wait, that was in regard to something else…if someone became President. Whatever. But fans were going to be up in arms if the Mets hierarchy failed on that acquisition. And, yet, the complaints keep rolling in.
Yankees fans could tell you what you would be getting with Juan Soto. Soto is a VERY good player. He’s is a formidable bat in the middle of the lineup. He was a young talent when he came up with the Washington Nationals at the tender age of 19 and had immediate success.
Juan Soto is a special player. But how special IS he and is he, or anybody for that matter, worth the amount of money being paid to have him play in a New York Mets uniform?
The experts say that he is a “generational” talent. And that tag is not handed out too often. Soto came up with the Washington Nationals organization. The same organization that produced Steven Strasburg and Bryce Harper. Two others whom were considered, at the time, “generational” players.
Just an aside…do the Nationals have the best scouting department or are they just lucky enough to draft these talented kids and then, in turn, unlucky enough to have to rid themselves of them because they just can’t, or won’t, pay them?
Moving on…is one player worth the monies Soto will be receiving? And for how long will he be worth that money?
New York Mets fans are clamoring for the signing of Juan Soto, the biggest bat available on the free agent market. And the fans have gotten their way before and it hasn’t always worked out so well. To wit, three of the biggest free agent hauls made by the Mets turned out to be the biggest targets of their scorn.
Let’s take a look at the three biggest mistakes the Mets made going after the biggest target on the free agent market.
Alan Karmin is an award-winning journalist and author. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of his life growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. Alan's family were avid Brooklyn Dodgers fans and when the Dodgers moved west, the Mets became the team to root for. The Mets have always been a true focal point, Alan even wrote a term paper in high school to analyze what was wrong with the Mets. While at the University of Miami, Alan honed his craft covering the, gulp, Yankees during spring trainings in Fort Lauderdale for a local NBC affiliate, as well as the Associated Press and UPI. He broadcasted baseball games for the University of Miami, and spring training games for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos. New York Mets Mania is a forum for Alan to write about his favorite team and for baseball fans to chime in and provide their thoughts and ideas about New York's Amazin' Mets.
