NEW YORK -- New York Mets general manager Sandy Alderson hopes his team will open 2016 with a “somewhat higher” payroll than the roughly $103 million mark it stood at on Opening Day this year.
“We ended up higher than the $103 [million] because of the additions we made at the [trade] deadline,” Alderson said. “So my hope is we’ll start with a somewhat higher payroll -- I don’t know exactly what that will be -- than we started [at] last year. And we’ll have room at the deadline to make acquisitions, as we did this year.