The Mets are reportedly capping their spending at around $10 million for the rest of the offseason, and David Stearns told reporters on Wednesday that he doesn't see adding another bat as "essential" for the 2024 team.
Evan, wondering why the Mets wouldn't continue to sign players to short-term deals to compete in the here and now while the youngsters develop, is now a bit worried about Steve Cohen's conflicting messages.
"The New York Mets, led by Steve Cohen and his wonderful wife, wrote a letter, but along with that letter was a price increase, and it was a significant price increase," Evan said of his season tickets for 2024. "There's no way. I don't care what the reports say. I don't care what David Stearns says. There's no way Steve Cohen, who's such a brilliant businessman, right Steve? There's no way that someone who's not tone deaf, right Steve? There's no way that Steve Cohen, even in a transition year, even in a year in which, yeah, they're being smart. 'Let's not hand out big contracts.' I'm with you, bro.
"There's no way Steve Cohen could be that tone deaf, could he? If you don't increase ticket prices after you spend big money, you don't do that as a tax for the failures of a year ago. So I'm calm because I know that my Opening Day tickets being $180 a ticket, that's not just a tax on Justin Verlander. That's a 'Hey, we're gonna spend a lot of money to try to win in the short term, and we're transitioning into the long term play.'"
But after Stearns' comments on Wednesday, Evan is wondering if spending a lot of money in the short term is actually going to happen.
"I got nothing to worry about. This owner would never want to make Citi Field a ghost town," Evan said. "Would he?"
