You can criticize New York Mets owner Steve Cohen's approach. You can bemoan his seemingly unlimited budget and post your thread on Twitter about how this is "bad for the game." But you can't deny one thing: Cohen desperately wants to win.
After signaling he didn't care about the luxury tax in March, Cohen backed up that assertion this offseason. With the signing of Carlos Correa on Wednesday, the Mets' offseason spending splurge jumped to an unfathomable $806.1 million.
As a result, the Mets are projected to pay roughly $111 million in luxury tax fees in 2023, per ESPN's Jeff Passan.