It took a year, but we now know the Mets massively overpaid for Francisco Lindor. And you can thank baseball maverick Sandy Alderson for once again misreading a market.
To recap, this offseason was billed as the winter of the shortstop or some such nonsense, because so many shortstops were reaching free agency. The Mets jumped the gun by a year, trading for Lindor and giving him $341 million spread out over 10 long years. Well, the Mets should have waited.
Over the weekend, the Red Sox signed Trevor Story for six years, $140 million, and the Twins shocked everyone by nabbing Carlos Correa on a three-year, $105 million contract (opt-outs likely make this a one-year deal).