The Mets’ failure to make the playoffs this season was also a “financial disaster,” New York radio host and former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason said.
“I still look at the amount of money [team owner Steve Cohen] spent on what this team did and how it wilted itself all the way to the end and the three and a half months to get us to this point?” Esiason said Monday on his radio show. “I mean, that, to me, is ridiculous.”
The Mets’ adjusted payroll for this season is approximately $341,050,160, placing them second in Major League Baseball, just behind the L.A. Dodgers.
That is the total salary owed to players for the current season and ranks the Mets as one of MLB’s highest-spending teams.
In 2020, Cohen promised fans a World Series in 3-5 years and that window has now closed with no World Series title and three years of missing the playoffs.
Esiason’s partner Gregg “Gio” Giannotti called the Mets’ season “death by a thousand paper cuts.”
“It was like we were watching them get flushed down the toilet for three and a half months,” he added.
Asked if the season was a failure, Juan Soto, who left the Yankees in free agency to join the crosstown rival Mets, told reporters, “It’s a failure. When you don’t make the playoffs it’s a failure.”
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