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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5597986, member: 173"] I'm baffled by Mets fans getting bent out of shape over Diaz and Alonso. It looks like Diaz want to go to LA and they had no chance (which they probably suspected and explains why they signed Williams). And it would make sense to overpay Pete if he was the final piece of a championship team - but he wasn't even close to that. If the Mets had resigned Pete and Diaz, would that have gotten them over the hump next year? Not a chance. My fearless prediction- Alonso's performance is going to drop rapidly. He'll be around 3.0 WAR next year, 2027 is going to be a lost season to a work stoppage, and he'll be around 2.0 WAR from that point (at best) for the rest of the deal. Signing him to five years is going to look really, really bad by the end of that contract. But absolutely nobody that is freaking out right now and wants Sterns fired will look back and say "huh, I guess I was wrong and Sterns was right". [/QUOTE]