Not to spoil James McCann’s arrival in New York, but some executives and agents believe the Mets screwed it up by not signing JT Realmuto and that Realmuto screwed it up by not signing with the Mets.
The free agency dwindles and dwindles, and sometimes a team and player work on different schedules to keep them from getting in line. That seems to have happened to the Mets and Realmuto. The Mets wanted to go faster than Realmuto, and when it turned out that no deal could be reached, they instead signed a four-year $ 40.6 million deal with McCann.
Realmuto is believed to be looking for a guarantee roughly three times that, and the Mets were the team most likely to offer that money. The match seemed perfect for the Mets as well. Some rival managers consider Realmuto to be the best in their position with the greatest lead of any player in the game.
This point is controversial. McCann, 30, is nine months older than Realmuto, and his track record isn’t that long …
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