By Brian Joura
Reading the comments on various posts here and it’s easy to see that fans are getting restless for the Mets to make some moves this offseason. And by moves, it means something more exciting than Kyle Crick or Adrian Houser. After the three previous years of Steve Cohen ownership, ones that saw the addition of players like Francisco Lindor, Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, its easy to see why the fans are impatient. But those big-name additions led to losing records in two of the three seasons, so perhaps we should keep that in mind.
As the one who came up with the phrase “East Milwaukee” to describe the mostly low-budget moves that David Stearns has made so far this year, you might conclude that I’m with the pitch-fork waving masses. But that’s not correct.
Instead, it’s a tweak of the nose at those who blindly asserted that Cohen was going to spend at the level he did last offseason when almost all public pronouncements indicated otherwise. Sure, there was the Yoshinobu Yamamoto hunt. But that was the exception. The Stearns-Cohen Mets weren’t going to chase after every shiny thing. They simply weren’t going to sign Cody Bellinger and Matt Chapman and Josh Hader simply because they were available.
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