New York Mets financial constraints and chances in 2013 Major League regular season - Part 2
The demoralised attitude of the rest of the team members saps their ability to fight back. They just enter games with a perception in the mind that they cannot defeat the opponents.
What is alarming is the fact that the Mets will most probably grant a contract extension to David Wright and R. A. Dickey.
Both of these players performed tremendously in the season, which means that blockbuster deals are in the making for them. In particular, Wright can fancy more than a $100 million.
If this happens, the notion that the budget of the Mets is spread over players inequitably will be reinforced.
The Mets will be apportioning a chunk of their capital for just a few players. While the stars retained through this way may guarantee remarkable performances coming off from them, it will hardly let the team make any progress in their way toward becoming
a National League East Division title winner.
Mets’ management is taking the club into a direction where while they can please fans by decorating roster with few stars but they cannot bring structural changes.
By freezing money for a number of years, they are potentially limiting options for the club. Unless miraculous inflow of cash occurs down the line from the investors, they will keep letting a mediocre team step on the field in the upcoming years.
Expecting the Mets to earn something substantial in a foreseeable future is actually ignorance of the facts on the ground.
General Manager Sandy Alderson seems h**l-bent to keep Wright and Dickey in the team at any cost. If his statements are any indicator, he is going to accept the demands of Wright even at the expense of their long term effects on the team’s financial position.
Wright has handled the situation smartly. He has kept giving an impression that he likes to stay with the Mets and at the same time he has not ruled out the possibility of testing free agency. It means he understands the art of exploiting the circumstances.
He realises that he has registered impressive offensive numbers in the season and that more probably will compel the team management to offer him an extravagant contract extension.
By keeping the option of free agency alive, he intends to transmit a tacit message to the management that they must be generous while they brainstorm regarding his contract renewal. He seems to have succeeded in his attempt to force the team officials to
make up their mind about him in such a way that is in accord with his wishes.
Mets’ General Manager Sandy Alderson has time and again hinted that he will go all out to make sure Wright and Dickey remain in the club.
“The first indication will be with what happens with David and R.A.,” Sandy Alderson said. “because while those two situations may not significantly increase our payroll for this year, they will represent commitments on out years, which I think is a fundamental
shift in our situation. If you have the uncertainty that existed last spring, it would be difficult to make those long-term commitments.”
New York requires complete overhaul of their roster if success within a few years is to be made a reality. First and foremost that they need to work on is attracting huge investment in the club.
Once they have achieved this, making an appropriate use of it will be equally important.
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