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https://youtu.be/3wMX_iAPaPI

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lolmets

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As a Mets fan, I hate having to defend this every year.

Yes, on the surface, this has an "lolmets" vibe to it, but when you look into this, it actually wasn't a bad decision.

It gave them the payroll flexibility to build the team that made it to the NLCS in 1999 and World Series in 2000.

To add, once they like Mike Hampton walk, the compensation draft pick they got was used to draft David Wright.

And finally, pretty much every team has deferred money on their books. And this isn't even the worst one.

In 1984 Bruce Sutter signed a 6 year, $9.6 million contract. $4.8 of it was deferred money at 13% interest that started at the end of the contract. It paid Bruce $1.3 million a year from 1990 to 2021. Bruce lasted only 2.5 seasons with Atlanta before being forced to retire.

Atlanta paid Sutter $43 million for 112 games where he saved only 40 games and had a 4.55 ERA.

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https://sny.tv/articles/bobby-bonilla-day-mets-narrative-garbage

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To be honest, that was kind of the thinking at the time. Not a Mets fan but as a Dodger fan I have to admit the Jeff Shaw contract was in the neighborhood.

Shaw was a pretty good closer but the Dodgers overpaid him for 3 years which included private air travel from a desert trailerpark in AZ (dude was from Ohio originally).

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