The Wall Street Journal sets up today’s fun with an article titled The Mets Aren’t Even Good at Being Rich and although it is paywalled the fun part is below (the bold is mine)
The Mets’ sudden unattractiveness to free agents—or rather its abrupt return to unattractiveness—can be traced through the past two seasons. In 2022, the Mets had the second highest payroll in baseball, won 101 games, and still finished as runners-up in the National League East. Then in 2023, they succumbed to crushing mediocrity. They finished with a 75-87 record—forgettable even by the Mets’ standards. (via WSJ)
Those two seasons put enormous dents into the Mets’ reputation as potential World Series contenders. It’s hard to say which did more damage.
