Jon Heyman is reporting that Trevor Bauer has signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Bauer to Dodgers
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) February 5, 2021
Trevor Bauer gets $102M for 3 years from Dodgers, per source. He has opt outs after each of the first two years; $40M in 2021, $45M in 2022. He'll be the highest-paid player in MLB history in '21, then again in '22. Good job by @AgentRachelLuba & Jon Fetterolf of @zssports_law.
— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) February 5, 2021
The buzz to start the offseason was the Mets might get two of the big three free agents from the list of Realmuto, Springer, Bauer. They got none, but Lindor/Carrasco/McCann/May etc. with probably an addition or two ahead, hard for anybody to really complain.
— Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) February 5, 2021
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I think we dodged a bullet. Sign Odorizi for like 3 years 39 mil. Good mid rotation option who works well with Hefner and doesn’t totally screw up your payroll. Don’t mind rich hill either of you’re going for 1 year assuming he is healthy.
With the extra resources you can either do a salary dunk trade and take on Bryant for 3rd and sign a glove first second tier CF as a 4tg outfielder type as well. Or go to the reds for Song Gray and their 3rd basemen. Lots of interesting options.
Still would like to trade for Kevin Keirmaire. Elite CF defense. Upside chance (righty!) with the bat. Isn’t overpaid. Pick one top prospect from us that isn’t C or 3b, 1-2 prospects in the 10-15 range, and send Familia and Cano over as well. Send them all the cash to pay 100 percent of Familia and Cano’s contracts. They just have to accept them on the trade. If this works out the Mets get a cost controlled elite fielding CF for a few years (who has hit some seasons though not recently) they get Familia and cano luxury tax off the payroll. You can flip Davis for Bryant. Defense fixed, dead payroll off luxury tax.
Dan B...good points. We need a strong, flexible plan B
Dan B...good points. We need a strong, flexible plan B
Thank GOD we didn’t get him for that ridiculous amount of money. Don’t let the door hit you in the @$$ on the way out. Lol
Make some trades and maybe Odorizzi and we stay under cap with wiggle room for the trade deadline.
To me it’s a big loss because of what it means. We got the billionaire owner but it made no difference.
Same old Mets.
There were 3 big targets and we got none.
Springer, Realmuto and Bauer.
We regular folks have a hard time imagining how much a billion is.
It’s a THOUSAND millions.
Our owner probably could have gotten all 3 for an extra 100 million over what he bid for the 3.
Yes, of course it would have been an overpay but the team would have been better and Cohen’s billions would would have been fine.
When the new Dodger owners came in they spend like drunken sailors.
They made a difference.
Couple years later the trophy.
I can’t know who made these decisions, but I suspect the cautious Sandy.
A guy 40 years in Baseball and one trophy tainted by a steroid team.
And Callahan, and Porter…..
please retire.
So we’ll sign someone like Ordirizzo and hope he’s not a Wacha or Porchello.
Kinda like what Jeff would have done.
Dan B: agree in general with your points / concept; only quibble is that I believe that if the Mets were to send money along on a trade to pay the salary, the salary the Mets pay still goes against the Mets payroll for luxury tax calculations. anyone know if I'm correct in that?
I don't think that is the case Jon. I think it counts against them if they release a player. I will look into that ans try to get a definitive answer.
Jon - been told it will count against Mets if they give $ for team to take bad contract.
Also was told Mets offered more, thought they had a deal last night but LA upped their bid.
thanks for the update, John. and I think that with a deeper roster, the Mets can come out stronger without Bauer than with him. Guess we'll see.
My initial emotion is relief that that circus is over and I was with Dan B. right through "I think we dodged a bullet". AFter that I'm not so sure.
Yes, I was having trouble seeing Bauer as elite enough at this point in his career to be making more money than anyone else in baseball. I am glad they did not pay him that kind of green next to deGrom.
Now, moving on. Not an Odorizzi fan. His last three years have produced almost identical results to Steven Matz. Trading Matz and his $5.2M salary and spending $39M for a righthanded clone doesn't make much sense to me.
Kiermaier is not a good enough hitter to trade for at all and is making way too much money to be a fourth outfielder who hasn't hit over .230 or had an OPS higher than .683 since 2017. Even trading Familia for him would be a bad deal.
I would be OK with a reasonable trade for Sonny Gray - or even Luis Castillo, but please not Suarez. Davis will provide as good a value as Suarez until one of Mauricio, Vientos, or Baty is ready.
I don't have a lot of issue with the look of not signing Bauer for somebody else's money. Rick is right, a billion is a ton of money that i cannot even wrap my head around, but that doesn't mean it is the right thing to do to spend on a guy that is not the best there is.
I will however, be upset if Lindor is not signed long term very soon, and this really should open up the road for extensions for Conforto and?? Thor.
Feels like Sandy wanted Bauer and he got played.
He offered crazy money.
Well, at least now we can get Hand and Colome and . . . maybe give Springer a call.
Oh, wait.
It's not ever yet! There are still good moves to be made. Team still thin w/ pitching, infield depth, CF.
If Thor comes back strong, we'll want to keep him.
Jimmy
CF would be my priority. Would have been my priority since the beginning. Not high on Bradley for what he is asking or ALmora for the decline on both sides of the ball over the past three years. Mets may have to look at the trade market, but don't see a lot of available options/
One insider I know spoke to an A's scout and said they are NOT trading Ramón Laureano even after a down year and a good CF prospect on the way.
I wonder if the Mets knew they'd fan on Bauer in the end, if they would have overspent for Springer to get him. We'll never know, but let's fix what we can with more hole-plugging deals and move forward. Lessons hopefully learned.
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