As the Mets head into the off season and early reports are that the Mets will be somewhere around $100M with about two thirds of that tied up among six players. Expectations are to expect things to be similar to what the last two off seasons were as far as dollars spent.
The Mets over the last two years as best as I can tell have signed 58 free agents with 48 of them being minor league contracts. From the 10 Pro contracts that the Mets have committed to in guaranteed money the yearly monetary breakdowns were $17.7M in 2012 and $8.1M in 2011 for a combined total of $25.8M.
Below is the NY Mets “Free Agent signings” Transaction History:
19 comments
srt
10/16/2012-7:23am at 7:23 am (UTC -4)
Not sure where you’re getting this data from Jerz, but keep it coming. I really like looking at these overall lists in one place.
Looking at this one…..it’s not very hard to see just how cash strapped the Mets have been since Sandy took over, is it? I think the majority of Met fans get this, it’s just a few that still believe he’s all ‘Moneyball’ and just doesn’t want to spend some imaginary money the Wilpons are trying to hand him.
Capuano, Young, Hairston and Cedeno turned out to be quite the bargains.
TRS86
10/16/2012-8:46am at 8:46 am (UTC -4)
I agree, NJ is THA man!
TRS86
10/16/2012-8:47am at 8:47 am (UTC -4)
Side note, may not be possible but is there a way that it would allow the user to sort the signings based on the column headings?
Mr North Jersey
10/16/2012-1:48pm at 1:48 pm (UTC -4)
It can be done in this case cause there are only 3 columns but it will take creating it using the Mets roster table we use so it will take some time due to the hyperlinks.
I’ll see if I can work on it later this off season.
TRS86
10/16/2012-2:51pm at 2:51 pm (UTC -4)
Thanks, it’s not a big deal. Just thought it would be cool to organize them by price but heck there’s only about 5 guys that they paid above league minimum for…
Mr North Jersey
10/16/2012-2:58pm at 2:58 pm (UTC -4)
It’s also possible to fit a 4th column that one can sort by position.
srt
10/16/2012-7:39am at 7:39 am (UTC -4)
OT:
Anyone see the Cards/Giants game last night?
These two teams seem pretty evenly matched right now. I had the Cards in 7 as I didn’t think the Giants offense matched up but they beat up on the Cards last night. The ‘Slide’ might have had something to do with that.
When Holiday took out Scudaro at 2nd on that attempted double play (went all Utley at him), seemed to really get the Giants fired up. Scudaro stayed in the game long enough to get his revenge though. Comes up with the bases loaded and hits one slightly in the gap to Holiday at there in LF. Holiday got in front of it and promptly let it go right through his legs back to the wall. Bases clearing double. Volgelsong pitched a heck of a game though.
Yankees/Tigers up tonight. I know many won’t count them out before all is played but IMO, Yankees are toast.
darknova306
10/16/2012-9:24am at 9:24 am (UTC -4)
Yeah, Yanks are toast. Can’t win with fractured intangibles.
Pacific NorthTex
10/16/2012-9:44am at 9:44 am (UTC -4)
+1
srt
10/16/2012-10:27am at 10:27 am (UTC -4)
LOL
TX
10/16/2012-10:00am at 10:00 am (UTC -4)
Well, considering the lack of funds on the signing, I’ll say he’s been OK with what he’s signed. Not all have been good ones, but I can’t think of one GM who signed nothing but good contracts.
Completely understand the amount of minor league contracts, as you need to reduce the salary risks as best you can.
Now, if you can add Wright and possible Dickey to that list by the end of November, then we’ll be doing better than OK, though my preference would be to see Dickey traded if they can’t find an extra 20Mil investor here or there to cover the 2013 season.
TRS86
10/16/2012-10:02am at 10:02 am (UTC -4)
I mean the naysayers have a point with the signing of about 9M in BP and then no Catcher. I have no idea what they tried in terms of catcher. I always thought the idea was to trade FFF or Rauch but I think injury to FFF may have played a part.
Something I have thought about though, those that wanted the Mets to spend a bunch of money last off-season, where did they want it spent? They were determined to give Murphy, Thole and Duda starting roles to see if they could hang. The place could have been CF but there was garbage available and I truly believe they wanted Kirk up by May. SP wasn’t an issue so what else should they have spent on.
TX
10/16/2012-10:11am at 10:11 am (UTC -4)
Yeah, I am one that wanted an upgrade at the C, but there wasn’t much around. I mean Barajas got 4 mil or something like that from the Pirates. And yes, in hindsight, I thought Alderson could have held out for something better than Francisco, but at the time I thought the BP was addressed adequately. Wasn’t stellar, but certainly better. I really wished they could have traded/gone after Nathan or Street, but thems the breaks, I guess.
And who would have thought Ramirez would have sucked this bad after such a good season the previous.
TRS86
10/16/2012-10:29am at 10:29 am (UTC -4)
I think Sandy went with quantity over risk. Of course it backfired. I think his thought was the entire pen needs an overhaul so spending all the money on one guy or spending money on a big injury risk isn’t going to help the entire pen. Turns out all three either got injured or under-performed or both.
Stick
10/16/2012-11:24am at 11:24 am (UTC -4)
true the pen moves did not work out. But (and I can’t see the chart, since it is blocked) an average of 2.5mill per head tells you pretty much what you need to know!
the other key #? 2. As in, the most years given, and that was just 2 guys I think.
so if they have guessed better on the pen arms, which I agree with Real on was the one area it made sense to invest in, things would have looke much different. But obviously 29 teams did not see Rodney (sp? the TB closer) coming, or he would have gotten a lot more than 2mill!
bottom line though, nothing Sandy did has any LT detriment to the team. A 2 year deal, even 6.5mill for Franky, is not going to kill a team.
wanny
10/16/2012-3:30pm at 3:30 pm (UTC -4)
there really have been no terrible free agent signings but that comes with the turf of taking only low-risk attempts. francisco is probably the worst but he has a chance for redemption. carrasco wasn’t so hot either.
there have been some good minor league deals: byrdak, izzy, young, etc. even quintanilla.
but sandy can’t be judged by free agency. it’s barely part of the plan. and really isn’t his fault at all.
Stick
10/16/2012-5:32pm at 5:32 pm (UTC -4)
DJ was so cheap, he was barely above rookie level pay, so eminently disposable.
Trs86
10/16/2012-9:15pm at 9:15 pm (UTC -4)
Sure it is, he’s sitting on boatloads of Wilpon money you know
Stick
10/16/2012-9:24pm at 9:24 pm (UTC -4)
I hear that every day, fred absolutely begs him to spend, spend, spend, and he just laughs him off. Because winning the game of spending less is his real goal.