By Steven Shrager
Back in 2022, with teams forced to trim their active rosters down from 28 to 26, the Mets decided to move on from Robinson Cano despite owing him $37.5 million on his 10-year, $240 million contract, which was originally signed with the Seattle Mariners. Cano, who was 39 at the time, had only played in 12 games for the Mets, after missing the entire 2021 season while serving a 100-game suspension for violating the MLB-MLBPA joint drug agreement for a second time. Many of us hoped that there would be a repeat PED violation for 2022 to get us out from his huge contract and his unproductive play.
In the first few years after arriving in New York along with reliever Edwin Diaz for the 2019 season, many contributors to Mets360 pounded away at the Mets for again mortgaging the future by trading away super outfield prospect Jarred Kelenic. Along with Kelenic, the Mets sent the Mariners veteran outfielder Jay Bruce and right-handed pitchers Anthony Swarzak, Gerson Bautista and Justin Dunn. The Mariners offset part of the salary disparity by shipping $20 million in cash to the Mets and absorbed the rest of Jay Bruce’s $10 million salary. The Mariners had been set to offer more dollars but the trade would have had to include prospect Jeff McNeil. When the Mets substituted Bautista for McNeil the dollars were decreased. Thankfully, McNeil stayed with the Mets.
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