After Mets’ reported Carlos Correa signing, here’s how much owner Steve Cohen could pay in luxury tax It's A LOT. USA Today Sports Media Group · Dec 21, 2022
Bill Madden: Mets, Yankees spreading holiday joy in Big Apple with free-spending offseason NEW YORK — When the dust began settling on what had been the wildest two weeks of spending in baseball history, Steve Cohen had emerged with a payroll of over $340 million and Hal Steinbrenner had shelled out $522 million on two players alone in Aaron Judge and Carlos Rodon. Tribune News Service · Dec 18, 2022
Mets are expected to shatter records with $350 million payroll The club is expected to owe $80 million in luxury tax. Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 14, 2022
Carlos Correa agrees to $350 million, 13-year deal with Giants Correa’s guarantee will be the fourth-largest in baseball history. Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 14, 2022
Bill Madden: It’s contract madness from MLB owners at winter meetings in ‘age of irrationality’ NEW YORK — Sometime around the midpoint of the baseball owners’ nearly two billion dollar spending spree at the winter meetings in San Diego this week, Billy Eppler got off the phone in the Mets war room and announced to his troops that the earth had just shifted. Tribune News Service · Dec 11, 2022
Willson Contreras Pushes Cardinals Closer to World Series Contention A few hours after Aaron Judge re-signed with the Yankees on Wednesday morning, and before A.J. Preller added Xander Bogaerts at the end of the night in his latest push to field an entire roster of shortstops, the Cardinals agreed to a five-year, $87.5 million contract with ... Sports Illustrated · Dec 9, 2022
The Mets Just Keep on Spending—but They Shouldn’t Be Done Yet New York re-signed Brandon Nimmo and grabbed David Robertson off the open market, and it could still do more. Sports Illustrated · Dec 9, 2022
Mets continue expanding payroll after signing Brandon Nimmo, David Robertson NEW YORK — The Mets blew past the luxury tax benchmark with their splashy winter meetings acquisitions and general manager Billy Eppler promised even more talent. One day after the meetings wrapped up, the club made good on that promise by re-signing outfielder Brandon Nimmo to an eight-year, $162 million… Tribune News Service · Dec 9, 2022
Brandon Nimmo, Mets agree to 8-year, $162 million deal, sources say ARLINGTON, Texas — The Mets really are going for it. Newsday · Dec 9, 2022
Report: OF Brandon Nimmo Signs Eight-Year Deal With Mets The veteran outfielder and former first-round pick will reportedly stay in New York after garnering interest from several teams. Sports Illustrated · Dec 9, 2022
Billy Eppler plans to ‘stay working’ after adding four new pitchers at Winter Meetings SAN DIEGO — The Mets are leaving the Winter Meetings with four new pitchers but have yet to find a center fielder or address the lack of power in the lineup. Tribune News Service · Dec 8, 2022
Red Sox to sign Japanese outfielder Masataka Yoshida to historic contract worth $105 million SAN DIEGO — It’s not the move Red Sox fans have been waiting for, but for the first time in years they made a franchise-altering free-agent signing that will completely change the way they look on the field. Boston Herald · Dec 8, 2022
What We’re Hearing About the Mets, Aaron Judge and the Red Sox The winter meetings reached a new level of activity on Day 3. Here’s what could be next. Sports Illustrated · Dec 8, 2022
What We’re Hearing on Day 2 at the Winter Meetings Carlos Rodón looks set to cash in. Plus, notes on blocking the bases, the baseballs and other signings from Day 2 in San Diego. Sports Illustrated · Dec 7, 2022
Sports Illustrated · Dec 6, 2022 Wordplayer Agent: Scott’s Puns Never Bore Us How Scott Boras, the biggest agent in baseball, turns meetings with reporters into a semiannual sea of puns, metaphors and jokes.
Tribune News Service · Nov 29, 2022 Taking a look at the Mets roster less than a week before Winter Meetings The big dominoes have yet to fall, but with MLB winter meetings less than a week away, we might finally see more hot stove movement.
Sports Illustrated · Nov 28, 2022 Where Have All the Star Center Fielders Gone? This is the worst the position has been in at least 50 years. What happened? Is there hope for a revival?
Los Angeles Times · Nov 19, 2022 Dodgers don't tender offer to Cody Bellinger, making him a free agent LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers had until 5 p.m. Friday to decide whether to tender Cody Bellinger, the 2019 National League MVP, a contract for the 2023 season.
Sports Illustrated · Nov 18, 2022 Building the Best Blue Jays Team for 2023 Earlier this week, the Blue Jays and Mariners made a fascinating trade. Toronto sent outfielder Teoscar Hernández, one of its best hitters, to Seattle for righthander Erik Swanson and minor-league lefthander Adam Macko. Hernández is projected to earn $14.1 million in 2023 via ...
Sports Illustrated · Nov 9, 2022 Ranking MLB’s Top 50 Free Agents, With Signing Predictions The offseason is officially here, and this year’s free-agency class features a record-setting slugger alongside star shortstops. See how they stack up.
Sports Illustrated · Nov 4, 2022 Mets’ Canha Says Jacob deGrom Wants to Stay With Team The Mets starter is expected to opt-out of his contract and enter free agency.
Tribune News Service · Oct 12, 2022 Abbey Mastracco: Mets lack of playoff success doesn’t diminish off-field strides NEW YORK — The Mets used to be synonymous with controversy. There have been too many years throughout the club’s history when the off-field incidents overshadowed the on-field play.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 10, 2022 Mets Left to Accept Another Fruitless Season A season that so recently seemed it could be special ended in familiar fashion for the Mets, who will likely look a lot different next year.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 9, 2022 The Mets Just Might Be Enough Pushed to the brink of what would have been a devastating elimination, the Mets looked more like their best selves in Game 2 against the Padres.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 7, 2022 Baseball Players LOVE Their Playoff Merch Only slightly less coveted than the postseason berth itself, the highly anticipated playoff paraphernalia is an MLB “rite of passage.”