Yoenis Cespedes and the New York Mets have agreed to terms on a four-year, $110 million contract which will keep the slugger in Queens. Cespedes would have been a great target for the Orioles if they could have afforded him. We all know they never could.
Yet, this sorrow breeds new opportunity. Jay Bruce, whom the Mets acquired this past trading deadline, is now expendable on a Mets roster rife with corner outfielders. The Orioles succeed best at the margins of the player acquisition market and Bruce is the definitive marginal player.
First and foremost, let’s get the formalities out of the way.