David Wright makes New York Mets the fools as he gets an eight-year $138 million contract-Part 2
Wright, in an apparent attempt to gain favour of the fans, has allowed the club to slash a part of his salary and use the saved amount for hiring an outfielder.
While it may multiply fans’ love for him, it cannot necessary help the Mets beyond a certain extent. At worst, it can exacerbate the future preparations of the club.
As per the deferment of the part of his money to the later years of his contract, Wright alone will make the club pay him a sum worth a number of players sitting on their roster after some seasons from now.
Unless some investment pours in the club down the line, the Mets are going to have another financial crisis affecting them in the next couple of years.
That also means they will have to compromise for another two to three seasons just like they are doing right now. Plagued by the financial troubles before the beginning of the last season, their officials knew they are going to fail. As it happened exactly
the same way, they are waiting assured for another collapse during the 2013 season.
The timing when Wright got contract extension should have been treated as the beginning toward the betterment. Instead, it has been taken as the one to put the club into another hole of financial miseries.
After a couple of decades when somebody writes about the Mets, the first thing he mentions would be titled as “extension of Wight and horrific consequences of it for the club”. He would narrate how the club found it hard to retain their Cy Young Award winner
R.A Dickey because of the money allocated for Wright.
The writer would never forget to state something as the opportunity dropped from the hands of the organisation due to $138 million offered to Wright.
The on-going year is supposed to be the start of recovery from the financial problems by the club. After liquidity crunch suffered in the last two seasons, the Mets have reached a point where bad time appears to be diminishing for them.
However, expending the money in a way which disturbs the balance of the roster and makes some players as the owner of the bulk of the payroll while others get peanuts can halt their recovery.
Doing so is equivalent of ignoring the range of issues that can become a cause of their decline down the road.
Having two or three star players while the rest represents the mediocrity shows that the organisation is more interested in pleasing fans than the long-term development of the team.
It proves the shortage of money does not mean the Mets should adjust according to the means. Far from this, they are continuing giving importance to the gimmicks as real problems are being overlooked.
Wright, after earning the deal, was happy to proclaim his inherent attachment with the organisation. In a way, he was happy to put the club on the wrong path by using his star worth and eating up the chunk of their yearly players’ salary.
“I’ve grown up in this organization and made lifelong friendships with teammates, uniform personnel and front office staff,” Wright said. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to finish what I’ve started and help bring the Mets and our fans a World Series title.”
Wright can never justify his desire of seeing the team winning laurels in the upcoming seasons with the kind of extravagant contract he has earned, even if he superficially tries to gain favour of the fans.
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