{"id":165387,"date":"2022-12-22T17:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/i-think-its-going-to-have-consequences-for-him-down-the-road\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T17:25:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:25:01","slug":"i-think-its-going-to-have-consequences-for-him-down-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/i-think-its-going-to-have-consequences-for-him-down-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I think it’s going to have consequences for him down the road’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The numbers speak for themselves: A $384.7 million payroll for this upcoming season, plus approximately $111 million in luxury tax fees. A ridiculous $806.1 million committed in one offseason.<\/p>\n

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen isn’t being frugal with his money, and it’s caught the ire of some executives and owners of other MLB teams.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it’s going to have consequences for him down the road,\u201d an official with another MLB team told The Athletic’s Evan Drellich. \u201cThere’s no collusion. But \u2026 there was a reason nobody for years ever went past $300 million. You still have partners, and there’s a system.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Despite the flimsy “no collusion” disclaimer (or because of it?), that sounds like a thinly veiled threat. And it speaks to how uncomfortable Cohen’s spending spree makes teams that have recently operated in largely similar lanes.<\/p>\n

After Cohen swooped in to lure shortstop Carlos Correa away from the stalling San Francisco Giants in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Mets owner put a bow on perhaps the wildest offseason for an individual club in a very long time. This was unprecedented because that $111 million luxury tax bill would be more than the total payroll for at least 10 other MLB clubs. The $315 million spent to sign Correa was more than the Pittsburgh Pirates have spent on free agents in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

While these decisions are undoubtedly praised by players, their agents and Mets fans, the other 29 clubs are warning of the effects of Cohen’s money. How do they compete with the power and might of a billionaire 17.5 times over? Especially when there’s no hard cap to curb his market-setting deals?<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur sport feels broken now,\u201d another executive told The Athletic. \u201cWe’ve got somebody with three times the median payroll and has no care whatsoever for the long-term of any of these contracts, in terms of the risk associated with any of them. How exactly does this work? I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n