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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3731499, member: 27"]
Confused by what the Mets are doing again.

They have around $30 million to spend before the salary cap.  But they let the Yankees outbid them for Justin Wilson.  And go for Mike Montgomery and Tommy Hunter.

They are now allegedly getting involved with Trevor Rosenthal.  They seem to be very reactive.  Don't see a plan being executed since Porter got canned.

They signed Almora and Pillar, which presumably means that they are not signing Jackie Bradley Jr.  Though the tabloids say they might if the DH is brought back for the NL at the last minute.

Why hold back on spending any real money?

The only thing that makes sense is that they are planning on trading for one or more players with big salaries and need to leave a lot of room to do this.  I have no issues doing this.  Probably will be some attractive players with big salaries available for very reasonable deals as the season ensues and teams start to lose a lot of money (pretty sure a lot of teams are going to lose a lot of money trying to play with 0-20% capacity).

There aren't going to be many teams in a position to take on a lot of salary and the Mets should be able to take advantage and get a really good player or two for pennies on the dollar.  It might not happen though for a few months.  Worse case, they have to wait until the end of the season.  I doubt that will happen.
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