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Kevin D. 2
Never saw that one coming! Sarcasm
Ju'Queveland "A'ight" Morris
Considering how long it took, I kind of didn’t see that coming lol
Steve 39
$1 million per home run or only $150,000 per hit. This didn’t turn out like every single person predicted
SWB0781 .
Yep, nobody thought this could have been a good signing back in November: fangraphs.com/blogs/mets-land-bargain-in-chris-you…
DarthMurph
There is such thing as a bad one year deal! What a waste.
oleosmirf 2
There is when that player was taking time away from younger and likely more productive players while he was given every opportunity to earn his pay.
Not to mention that 7.5 mil could have been used to sign someone else…
Eric 23
In some alternate reality, Chris Young is having a big year while Nelson Cruz is getting cut.
Hindsight bias is king.
DarthMurph
Hindsight doesn’t have anything to do with the Young deal being a mistake from the start.
He had a disastrous season in 2013. The Mets signed him early on in the offseason and paid more than they had to by a few million. Which was money that could have been spent elsewhere.
Tko11
No one in their right mind thought Young would have a better year than Cruz…
NoAZPhilsPhan
Baseball Ref. link it to the wrong Chris Young.
A lot of Phils fans wanted CY to be signed as a replacement for Ben Revere based on 2010-11 being decent years, despite the fact that he was awful in 2012-13. I never understood that and was shocked that the Mets signed him.
Jeff Todd
Of course. I manually input the link, but it must have replaced it when I ran our linker for den Dekker’s name.
Jeff Todd
BTW, he was pretty good in 2012 until he was injured. I thought it was a reasonable signing at the time — didn’t work out, but that’s often the case when you are getting a vet on a one-year deal.
MisterBill 2
As Gerald Ford once said, Our long national nightmare is over.
tesseract
mets can now play above .500 the rest of the way
MetsEventually
Awful, incompetent signing by Alderson. 7 million for a guy who had one decent year. This move comes 2 months far too late. Young is responsible for at least 2-3 loses. His highlight was the Yankees series. He is easily my least favorite Met, ever.
rct 2
Chris Young had two objectively very good seasons, and he’s had two decent ones. I agree that he should have been cut months ago, but you’re painting the signing in a worse light than it actually is.
Chioakcisco
Us A’s fans tried to warn you, Alderson…
FlDino
Took long enough but maybe they did learn something after the Jason Bay debacle.
murphys_ghost
After witnessing fiascos such as Luis Castillo, Oliver Perez and Jason Bay this certainly ranks low on the scale of Met missteps – wasn’t a cancer in the clubhouse though as some, just didn’t produce and it was more a question of return on investment. I wish him well, no doubt someone will pick him up.