The Mets did not land Shohei Ohtani, as many hoped they would back when billionaire owner Steve Cohen bought the team and brought in Billy Eppler, who courted Ohtani to the Angels, as his GM.
Instead, the two-way superstar is off to the Dodgers on a massive $700 million deal, leaving Joe Benigno frustrated that his team seemingly didn't even make a play for the greatest free agent in baseball history.
"I'm very down on Cohen. Very, very, very down," Joe said. "The Blue Jays were in the mix for the guy. Come on!"
Joe is holding out hope that the Mets will be in play for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but fears the offense will be left relatively unaddressed in the first offseason of David Stearns' tenure.
"How much of it is the fact that we have this small-market general manager, who comes in here - I understand Yamamoto - but this guy comes in here, and he's gonna run the Mets like they're the Brewers!" Joe said. "Are we going after any bats at all?"
