With the Mets selling off much of their tradeable assets before Tuesday’s deadline, the message is clear that the front office is ready to cut its losses in 2023 and look ahead to 2024 and beyond.
So, what does that mean in the immediate future for a team that came into the season with the highest payroll in baseball history and World Series expectations?
Gio says the immediate future will be trying to convince fans to make the trip to Queens to watch a team that has essentially given up with two months still to go.
“It’s so expensive to go to these games,” Gio said. “You can’t look like you’re punting a year when you have Steve Cohen as owner. That perception is the worst.
“If you look like you’re punting a season when your owner is worth $16 billion, that’s really bad.”
After trading David Robertson and Max Scherzer, and likely more trades to come, that will absolutely be the perception around the 2023 Mets, and Gio says it will go down as one of the biggest failures in franchise, and New York sports, history.
“This is as bad to me as the Nets failure,” Gio said. “There was more drama around them, but spending all this money, and they’re not even gonna make the playoffs! The season is over in July!
“You have two months to go of irrelevant Mets baseball.”
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