The Mets Have Gone From +2000 To +1100 To Win The World Series

The Jokic brothers partied in Miami after beating the Heat on Monday night 🍾. Let’s talk Max Scherzer and the Mets 👇

Mad Money Mets

Last Wednesday, when pitcher Steven Matz inked a new deal with the St. Louis Cardinals in lieu of re-upping with the Mets, owner Steve Cohen took to Twitter to voice his displeasure, “I’m not happy this morning”

Since then, Cohen has seemingly retaliated on tilt, filling out his franchise with some of the biggest names in baseball. Since he started his spending spree, the Mets have committed more than $200M to new players, the most of any team this offseason

• Eduardo Escobar: 2 years, $20M

• Mark Canha: 2 years, $28M

• Starling Marte: 4 years, $78M

• Max Scherzer: 3 years, $130M

By the time the latter of the four deals was done, the Mets had nearly halved their odds of winning the World Series (+2000 to +1100), jumping into the inner circle of contenders

2022 World Series Odds

• Los Angeles Dodgers: +600 (bet $100, win $600)

• Houston Astros: +1000

• Chicago White Sox: +1100

• New York Mets: +1100

• New York Yankees: +1200

The Super Staff

At $43.3M per year, Scherzer’s new deal holds the largest average annual value of any player in Major League Baseball history. But why pay a 37-year-old a record sum into his age-40 season? Well, he just might be the greatest pitcher of his generation 🗽

• Three-time Cy Young Award winner

• Finished in the top five of Cy Young voting in eight of the last nine seasons

• Finished third last year

The Mets rotation now features two of the most elite pitchers in the game — and if there’s one man inarguably better than Scherzer, it’s Jacob DeGrom 👑

• Two-time Cy Young Award winner

• Finished in the top 10 of Cy Young voting in six of the last seven seasons

• Finished ninth last year (only played half the season)

While the Mets have a couple of question marks rounding out their rotation, they now have what is easily the top starting pitching duo in all of baseball

Trivia Question: Which pitcher has won the most Cy Young Awards? (answer below)

Scherzer Vs. The League

In one offseason, the Mets significantly increased they payroll, but that’s what you get when your owner is worth over $15B and looking for a World Series title

To put it into perspective, Scherzer’s $43M annual salary is actually comparable to the entire payroll of a few teams 💰

• Seattle Mariners: $57M total

• Cleveland Guardians: $46.7M

• Max Scherzer: $43.3M

• Pittsburgh Pirates: $40.2M

• Baltimore Orioles: $37M

With no baseball on, we’ll check back in tomorrow with our parlay of the day 🤑

Trivia Answer: Roger Clemens’ seven Cy Young Awards is the most all-time. Randy Johnson (5), Greg Maddux (4) and Steve Carlton (4) are the only other players with more than Scherzer (3)