Mets and $333 Million Dollar payroll

[mrreality68]

The Mets spent a lot of money bringing back and/or adding to replace the free agents they lost

Their project payroll this year is $333 Million dollars and will pay over $66 million dollars in luxury tax

Did they improve? Are they even the best team in the NL East?
How did they do to you?
Mets' offseason signings

PLAYER POS. CONTRACT
Edwin Diaz RP 5-year; $102M
Brandon Nimmo OF 8-year; $162M
Jose Quintana SP 2-year; $26M
David Robertson RP 1-year; $10M
Justin Verlander SP 2-year; $86.6M

[Shoeless Moe]

As a neutral outsider Mets have a much tougher road to the World Series than the Yankees.

Granted the Yankees can't beat the Astros and that is a huge problem, but the NL is so much better than the AL these days.

The Astros have been to the ALCS 6 straight times. They own the AL, no one else is close. Yankees were just an embarrassment in this years ALCS. They looked awful, they look intimidated, and they have done nothing this offseason to address that, so I expect more of the same out of them next year.

A good regular season and then booted in the 1st or 2nd round of the Playoffs.

The Mets got better for sure with their signings, but so did the Phillies, Padres, and Cardinals. And you have the Dodgers and Braves too.

Of the Top 6 teams in MLB 5 are in the NL, so tough road for the Mets, but tough road for all of the NL.

1. Astros
2. Padres
3. Dodgers
4. Phillies
5. Braves
6. Mets

.....and those Top 6 can be flipped amongst each other, but they are clearly the Top 6 going into 2023.

Then the drop off to teams like the:

Mariners
Cardinals
Yankees
Rays
Blue Jays

[mrreality68]

Sadly You are spot on in you assessment
The interesting re-signing was Nimmo I never knew he was in the top 6 in OBP since 2018 in the entire Major League

Nimmo is in sixth place in Major League Baseball in OBP since 2018. The outfielder is in elite company in that regard as the only five players above him are all superstars. Mike Trout, Juan Soto, Freddie Freeman, Bryce Harper, and Aaron Judge are the only players to have a higher OBP over that time period. Plus He also ranked in the Top 20 in BB% at 16th with 13.7 percent

[BobbyStrawberry]

I like the Robertson deal. That's a lot of years for Nimmo but I'm OK with it.
Braves (and possibly Phillies) are still ahead of them in the NL for me.

And yes the Phils had a great year but the Yankees are a far superior team

[packs]

Nimmo seems like the Aaron Hicks of the Mets. He's only played 100 games or more twice and he's about to be 30 years old.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by packs

Nimmo seems like the Aaron Hicks of the Mets. He's only played 100 games or more twice and he's about to be 30 years old.

As a Mets fan, this hurts but it's a fair comparison!

[Rad_Hazard]

As a Mets fan I think their moves this offseason have been a "best of what is available" situation. I agree that the Robertson deal is good, they need more bullpen depth, and Diaz is as good as it gets so I'm good with that deal as well. Nimmo has been great and he's a homegrown guy so that's good to see.

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by Rad_Hazard

As a Mets fan I think their moves this offseason have been a "best of what is available" situation. I agree that the Robertson deal is good, they need more bullpen depth, and Diaz is as good as it gets so I'm good with that deal as well. Nimmo has been great and he's a homegrown guy so that's good to see.

Agreed. They did what they could given the circumstances. Grateful they are willing to spend what is needed. Their payroll has steadily grown--was 23rd highest a decade ago, and will be near the top in 2023.

I like Nimmo, but I hope he gets on base bit more next year. His OBP was only .367 in 2022 (was over .400 3 of the previous 4 years).

Mets are pretty solid though. They had 4 guys with a WAR over 5 last year: McNeil 5.7, Lindor 5.4, Scherzer 5.2, Nimmo 5.1, and Alonso was close with 4.4 (his DWar was -1.1).

Phils and Braves are going to be TOUGH.