Three days after the record deal was done, and star shortstop Carlos Correa was gone to the San Francisco Giants for a shortstop-record $350 million, you could still hear a tinge of disappointment …
for a shortstop-record $350 million, you could still hear a tinge of disappointment in Steve Cohen’s voice., and possibly spend so much money and accept such a large tax hit without seemingly feeling any pain.Of that there is absolutely no doubt. Perhaps no one has ever done more trying in baseball.he seems to regret not spending more
Cohen will recover, however, and he’ll be ready to strike again. He noted there would “always be another free agent.” He didn’t mention who that might be, and we can only guess. Shohei Ohtani? Juan Soto? From here on out, the very best must be presumed to be in play if they are free. The Yankees never made much sense since they have three shortstops, including two kids they like, plus two well-paid veteran third basemen , after all. But did the Mets? They look just as full at those spots, too, certainly at shortstop with Lindor and seemingly at third with veteran Eduardo Escobar and one of the game’s top 20 prospects, Brett Baty.The Mets weren’t an obvious fit.
Cohen did have a limit, as his initial offer turned out to be $50 million less than Correa got. Who knows if he might have gone higher had Correa not been “down the road.” But Cohen suggest there was an endgame. He told me he was only going to do something “that made sense … and not get crazy.” This was the fear of the other owners: Not that a very rich man — Forbes estimates Cohen to be worth $17 billion, though those figures occasionally prove to be very rough — would spend some of his fortune, but that he had so much it wouldn’t faze him to the point he would never stop. We’re not there yet — he did show a threshold on Correa; he didn’t offer $400 million after all — but he’s operating like no one before him. He talks about the red ink like it’s almost nothing.
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