"Steve Cohen has not given up on buying the Mets, but sources close to the situation say he would want the team’s majority stake in cable network SNY to justify a new bid anywhere near the Wilpons’ $3 billion valuation.
What remains unclear is whether the Wilpons have any interest in selling SNY or dealing with Cohen a second time.
The Wilpons own 65 percent of the cable network in partnership with Spectrum and Comcast. Banking sources tell The Post the network is valued between $850 million-$1 billion, with gross earnings near $150 million annually. Considering the Mets are thought to lose $50 million in an average year, the network would be hugely useful in any sale of the organization.
“Cohen wants SNY, and he wants it at fair value,” one banker familiar with the deal said. “The team loses $50 million a year in a good year, so he wants SNY’s revenue, and he might pay a small premium to never have to deal with Fred and Jeff [Wilpon] ever again."
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That's fair. I probably wouldn't have done that because of I'd rather spend the extra $10m the next few years on P or C depth, unless the scouts thought Marte was a big upgrade over Nimmo defensively in CF. I don't trust defensive metrics all that much but they say he's regressed a lot.
So i'd have preferred to save $ for pitching and roll the dice on JDD's bat because the upside he showed last year is as good as Marte's best years.
I don't underrate Davis, I just feel like he's a luxury that is not essential to the Mets and his value to them is more in a trade.
I'm ok with Nimmo in CF. I too don't trust defensive metrics, so I won't lie and say I watched Marte enough to know if he has regressed defensively or not, but I watched Davis enough to know he's a liability in the field.
Nimmo may not be a prototypical CFer, but I don't consider him a liability despite what metrics may say. I once read metrics that had Alfonso Soriano as he best LFer in the MLB (2007) and then two years later (2009) he was the among the worst. I'm not sure defensive analytics are reliable yet.
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Yah posted about this last night like 10 posts up...
It would be an upgrade from the Wilpons simply because of spending power.
4 in the top 100.
Mauricio the highest - says with a good year he can be a top 5 prospect next year.
Mauricio #17
Alvarez #48
Allan #92
Baty #95
FWIW: Kelenic #8
Mauricio signed with the Mets in 2017 for $2.1 million, then the largest bonus the team had ever given a player in the international free-agent market, and made his full-season debut less than two years later at age 18. He was the youngest regular in the Sally League last year — the only qualifying position player in the league born in 2001 — and held his own against older competition, finishing above the league median in batting average and contact rate, although he also had a ground ball rate of nearly 53 percent. Mauricio is a very athletic shortstop who’s already above-average at the position, while at the plate, he has lightning in his hands, and has power that he hasn’t gotten to yet because he’s still so young and because he’s putting the ball on the ground too often. I don’t think it’s entirely in his swing, but he will need to try to get underneath the ball more consistently to get to his 25-plus HR ceiling. A shortstop with this kind of bat speed who can already make contact against pitchers two to four years his senior has huge potential, and could easily be a top 5 prospect in a year with a solid showing in High A.
Wasn't he an underslot that afforded Vientos (who was kind of rumored to be in play with the first pick anyway)? I have been all that high on Peterson and still aren't but the MLB draft is just such a crap shoot it's hard to get too frustrated with 1 poor/mediocre late round pick.
Everyone crushed Sandy's drafts overall and on the whole they've been among the most productive over that time period. I don't remember where I saw it (Athletic maybe?) but someone added up the war and the number of players over a certain threshold and the combo of Nimmo, Fulmer, Conforto, McNeil was way outperforming the field even prior to Alonso/Smith breaking out.
Pitcher velo is one of the most important things to look at this time of year. Remember those seasons when he heard about how good Harvey felt and then his FB was 92-93 instead of 96?