OT: New York Mets 2024-2025 Off Season Thread

[Doctor Worm]

If the Mets were to start doing this, MLB would come up with a rule to stop it. The Mets could give Soto $1 billion dollars and defer most of it like Ohtani knowing even the Dodgers would have trouble matching that. Dodgers are given a lot of lead way to stretch the rules.

The Cohen rule doesn't exist because 95% of the league will spend like crazy. It was to keep Cohen from separating himself from the few teams who do spend like the Dodgers, the Yankees, and the Red Sox. Even those teams would have trouble keeping up with the money Cohen is ready to dish out. They are not willing to pay that tax too often.

IDK - the last thing Cohen needs to do is to defer somebody's payments.

 

[yesrutgers01]

If the Mets were to start doing this, MLB would come up with a rule to stop it. The Mets could give Soto $1 billion dollars and defer most of it like Ohtani knowing even the Dodgers would have trouble matching that. Dodgers are given a lot of lead way to stretch the rules.

The Cohen rule doesn't exist because 95% of the league will spend like crazy. It was to keep Cohen from separating himself from the few teams who do spend like the Dodgers, the Yankees, and the Red Sox. Even those teams would have trouble keeping up with the money Cohen is ready to dish out. They are not willing to pay that tax too often.

That is what these guys aren’t getting- if Cohen did the same deferment to Ohtani last year- baseball would have come up with a new Cohen rule. Mist likely a new tax if you go over a certain percentage of salary in deferred penalty.

 

[yesrutgers01]

As I understand it, the most popular baseball team in Japan is the Dodgers, more popular than any Japanese team. They have a leg up right now. So be it. There are a number of good to great Japanese players, but there are way more good to great American and Latin players. Build the system. Spend to supplement. Spend more than anyone else when absolutely necessary. I'm fully confident in the management team and ownership of the Mets. It's been decades since I could say that. It's not even December, and folks are sweating bullets over the Dodgers and Japan and Snell and Yamamoto and Ohtani and lions and tigers and bears.

I wonder if the Yankees were the top team when Matsui was playing and if the Mariner’s were the favorite when Ichiro was playing

 

[willisneverrana43]

I wonder if the Yankees were the top team when Matsui was playing and if the Mariner’s were the favorite when Ichiro was playing

Sure, go ahead. Wonder that.