
A different way to evaluate Mets’ big roster decisions: Sherman
NY Post
Jake Odorizzi made public last week that he believed he was going to be a Met before Jared Porter was hired as general manager, and then Zack Scott came aboard, first as a lieutenant to Porter then as his replacement.
That duo did not value Odorizzi as Sandy Alderson had when he was briefly running baseball operations. So the Mets pivoted to try to make a big deal with Trevor Bauer, and — when the 2020 NL Cy Young award winner went to the Dodgers — the Mets ultimately considered James Paxton before signing Taijuan Walker to a two-year, $20 million contract. So this provides a game within a game to track how Walker does compared to, in particular, Odorizzi and Paxton and — to some degree — Bauer. For Bauer was a different financial class, the one player left on the board later in the offseason for whom Steve Cohen was going to approve exceeding the $210 million luxury-tax threshold for 2021.More Related News

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