God, the Mets will never keep this staff together as long as the Braves did. Free agency has killed the baseball I grew up with. Trades and building a good farm system was the staple of the national pastime.
Deals like this are one of the reasons I can't get too interested in baseball aside from some October games every tens years or so. Games are just the NY Millionaires vs the Boston Millionaires. Players switch back and forth from year to year. I don't blame players as much as fans. They just keep paying and paying and paying.