NEW YORK – Before becoming the Mets’ general manager, Brodie Van Wagenen landed Yoenis Cespedes a four-year, $110-million deal with the team he’d eventually run.
That contract has proven to be favorable only for the player and perhaps is one of the worst in all of MLB, and Van Wagenen now is dealing with the ramifications.
Van Wagenen said Monday that it’s “too early to tell” if Cespedes will play in 2020 in what will be the final year of his contract. Cespedes missed all of last season while rehabbing from heel surgeries, and later stepping in a hole at his ranch in Florida and fracturing his right ankle.