The Mets are hiring Billy Eppler as their next General Manager and he will also oversee baseball operations. Billy Eppler is the man responsible for having the greatest baseball player on the planet, Mike Trout, have no success. The only explanation for the hire is he is best friends with David Sterns who would be a very good General Manager. Sterns has said that he is open to becoming The Mets General Manager after his contract with The Brewers is over in 2022. The Mets were going to interview Sterns this year for the job, but the Brewers denied it.
This is a huge gamble to take and if it does not work, Cohen will start feeling the heat. In his first press conference, he said he wanted to be The Dodgers of The East – implying to stop being the Angles of The East – and we bring in The Angles GM.
HOLD THE PHONE! Breaking News mid-me writing this! Noah Syndergaard is an ANGEL! Syndergaard goes to LA on a one-year 21 million dollar deal. This is an absolute fuck Cohen moment. Noah openly has been wanting to be a Met and was a little salty when he got the Qualifying Offer. What will Syndergaard be? Hard to tell. But that is not an excuse to not give the guy 3 extra million dollars on his one-year.
This is officially a “The Sky Is Falling In Queens” blog. This is a very bad look for The Cohen Regime going into a pivotal off-season. The Mets keeping Marcus Stroman just became significantly more important. This is an off-season that Met fans expect the world after another disappointing season missing the playoffs, watching The Atlanta Braves have a good trade deadline and go on to win The World Series, and just an overall frustrating deadline and season. It will be difficult to convince free agents to come play in Queens after watching The Team not sign their first round draft pick over a couple million dollars, struggling to find someone who wants to be POBO or GM, and now letting a guy who is more a Met than Mr. Met, Noah Syndergaard, walk away over 3 million dollars.
I can’t help but feel that even though there is a new owner who has more money than The MLB, it is the same old Mets. It feels like nothing changed, and we will just continue to get let down and brought real pain over this team.
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