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Welcome to Day 1 of the Steve Cohen era. Amd while the sale of the team is not exactly official yet, it’s official enough for me as they wait to iron out a few formalities and technical details.

As far as I’m concerned, the Wilpons are out and we are at the dawn of a new age for the New York Mets — hopefully one with a lot less dysfunction and a lot more championships.

Cohen’s first move was a good one as he convinced former GM Sandy Alderson to return to the organization as the team president overseeing baseball operations.

What happens next, is a bit unclear but I’m pretty certain that the next shoe to drop will be the firing of Brodie Van Wagenen. His two years at the helm of the Mets was fraught with many moves that massively backfired and his penchant for dealing away some of the team’s top prospects to construct his win-now roster will sting for years to come.

The question on most Mets fans ‘ minds is what kind of owner will Steve Cohen be and the lifelong Met fan has already signaled that he intends to let his baseball operations people run the baseball operations, and that’s incredibly refreshing to hear.

Cohen inherits a team with a very solid offensive core of players, who in fact led the National League in batting. Power hitting Pete Alonso headlines an impressive young group that features outfielders Michael Conforto and Brandon Nimmo, as well as a trio of versatile players in Jeff McNeilJ.D. Davis and Dominic Smith — who had himself a breakthrough season in 2020.

The Mets also have one of the game’s top starting pitchers in Jacob deGrom, and he’s complimented by young southpaw David Peterson, who earned his spot in the rotation with an impressive rookie campaign. After that, your guess is as good as mine, but suffice it to say, the Mets have some work to do this winter.

Fortunately, the team now has an owner with some very deep pockets and who will be able to infuse the Mets with enough cash to fill out the rest of the roster sans the financial restrictions that often plagued the previous regime

Additionally, you can expect Alderson to put together a front office that will base their decisions on an analytics based approach and not the shoot-from-the-hip style we’ve seen over the last two seasons.

The Mets will need a frontline catcher and you can bet that free agent J.T. Realmuto will be at the top of Cohen’s shopping list this offseason.

It is also my fervent hope that the Mets will focus on improving a defensive squad that ranked 26th in Defensive Runs Saved this year.

The bullpen is an enigma wrapped in a riddle with Edwin Diaz and Seth Lugo among the key pieces whose roles for next season are very much up in the air.

On the payroll front, it’s good news for the Mets as they have cleared David Wright, Yoenis Cespedes and Jed Lowrie off their ledger and their paroll commitments for 2021 puts them in a good position to be very flexible.

Here’s a rudimentary breakdown of the numbers. .

Guaranteed Contracts

Jacob deGrom – $36,000,000

Robinson Cano – $24,000,000

Jeurys Familia  – $11,667,000

Dellin Betances  – $6,000,000

Brad Brach  – $1,350,000

1. Seattle pays $3.75 million of Robinson Cano‘s salary.

2. Dellin Betances and Brad Brach have player options and will likely opt out and become free agents

So essentially, the Mets have roughly &69 million tied up on deGrom, Cano and Familia. That’s it. Plenty of wiggle room if you get my drift.

Arbitration Eligible

Noah Syndergaard (A4)

Chasen Shreve (A4)

Michael Conforto (A3)

Steven Matz (A3)

Edwin Diaz (A2)

Seth Lugo (A2)

Brandon Nimmo (A2)

Robert Gsellman (A2)

Miguel Castro (A2)

Amed Rosario (A1)

J.D. Davis  (A1)

Dominic Smith  (A1)

The most significant increases will go to Michael Conforto and Edwin Diaz.  Though he’s expected to miss most if not all of the season, Noah Syndergaard will get a slight increase according to the rules of arbitration.

Non-Guaranteed Contracts

Jeff McNeil

Pete Alonso

Tomas Nido

Luis Guillorme

Andres Gimenez

Key Departures

Todd Frazier

Wilson Ramos

Rick Porcello

Jake Marisnick

Michael Wacha

Important Dates

Oct. 24-28: The 2020 World Series champions will be crowned on one of these nights, depending on how many games prove to be necessary.

One day later: Players file for free agency

Five days later: Teams and players will begin exercising options. Teams will also have to decide on making any qualified offers.

Dec. 6-10: This is when MLB’s annual winter meetings were supposed to be held in Dallas, Texas. But most expect this to be canceled and reworked into a virtual event.

Feb. 27: Spring training officially begins.

April 1: Opening Day 2021. All 30 clubs are scheduled to play.

October 20, 2019: The World Series begins and will conclude no later than October 28 if it goes seven games.

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