Due to his wife, A very loyal New York Mets player has announced his sudden retirement, sending a powerful statement and bidding the team and supporters
Two opinions about how the Mets are managed have changed in the last few days thanks to the team’s owners.
Upon agreeing to a three-year, $75 million contract with Yoenis Cespedes on Friday night, Fred and Jeff Wilpon could have raised a sign that read, “We Are Not Cheap (Anymore)!”
And the Wilpons could have waved a sign that said, “That’s Right, We Do Honor Our History!” when they announced on Monday that Mike Piazza’s No. 31 would be retired on July 30. This would have been the first time the Mets had done something similar with one of their own in 28 years.
The many Mets supporters who had long complained that their team had turned into a big-city team with a small-market budget and was also overly frugal when it came to retiring the numbers of its best players will undoubtedly be pleased by these two pieces of news.
Regarding Cespedes, the belief had persisted throughout the winter that he was too costly for the Mets to retain, requesting too much in free agency for an excessive amount of years to suit their conservative preferences.
Things got worse when word spread that Cespedes was being offered $100 million by the rival Washington Nationals. The idea that Cespedes helped the Nationals defeat the Mets for the 2016 division title infuriated Mets fans. However, in an unexpected move, Cespedes has decided to stay in Queens thanks to the Mets’ offer, which includes a $27.5 million opt-out clause good for one year. Cespedes is a slugging outfielder.
In any case, the amount that the owners of the Mets have now decided to give Cespedes contradicts a lot of their previous financial experiences since they discovered in late 2008 that Bernard L. Madoff had embezzled their fortune.
