Good News Everyone! ESPN is reporting
Right-hander Kodai Senga and the New York Mets agreed on a five-year, $75 million contract Saturday night,…Senga, 29, starred over 11 seasons with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball, going 104-51 with a 2.42 ERA in 1,340⅔ innings over 275 starts. He’s armed with a fastball that has reached triple digits and a split-fingered fastball nicknamed “the Ghost Fork” for how it disappears before reaching the plate. (via ESPN)
My favorite part of this is Steve Cohen’s IDGAHoot attitude on the tax.
Currently, the Mets’ competitive-balance-tax payroll — calculated by adding the average annual value of all their deals — is estimated to be around $345 million. If that holds, the Mets would be levied a never-before-seen luxury-tax penalty: $6 million for money spent from $233 million to $253 million; $8.4 million for $253 million to $273 million; $15 million for $273 million to $293 million; and $46.8 million for above $293 million — a 90% tax rate. All told, the Mets are facing a $76.2 million CBT bill — and a total payroll in excess of $421 million.(via ESPN)
One thing that sometimes will get me to watch baseball is an interesting starting pitcher. (The Opener should be banned for this reason, as I am not alone in this). Maybe I will have to tune in and watch some innings this summer. Fun!
I did receive a text this morning from Media Goon asking me to pick him up at “Japanese Modell’s” which I didn’t know was a thing, and I didn’t know what he was talking about, but now it all makes sense.
As exciting as all this is, remember that MLB broke the sport with too many playoff teams -the Mets could win 101 games and not get out of the NL quarter-finals. So, why watch?
