Jerry Recco did some math for Boomer and Gio to reflect how much money has been spent on Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander to not pitch, and it’s a staggering total.
“At $43.3 million per season, should they make 33 starts, which was the most starts a pitcher made last season, which was Gerrit Cole, it would be $1.313 million per start,” Jerry said. “By my calculations, they have missed a total of nine starts already, it comes out to $11 million that Steve Cohen has paid to pitchers at 40 or close to 40 years old to not pitch.”
Boomer tried to find the silver lining by comparing those sunk costs to the disaster of the Nets’ recently destructed superteam.
“They still haven’t gotten up to Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving or Ben Simmons’ numbers.”
“Not yet,” Jerry replied. “Give them time.”
Gio agreed that if the Mets continue on this trajectory, it will be just as much of a failure as Brooklyn’s superteam disaster.
“One thing the Mets and the Nets have in common? If this team doesn’t get close to a championship or win a championship, that’s as big of a disaster as Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving,” Gio said. “Spending that much money in an uncapped sport.”
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