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It's a way of avoiding luxury taxes and also keeping player salaries lower on per year basis.

What did he do?

Yeah I saw this reading up later. Didn’t know they were buddies though. That’s cool. Mets will be spoiled having two of the great infielders of our time. These guys are both on track for HOF by pure numbers in my book.

Actually, Lindor and Correa are good buddies. Lindor specifically appealed to Steve Cohen to go out and get Correa for 3B. This won't cause friction at all. The players already are on board with Correa going to 3B and Lindor sticking at SS.

It's not very common at all. This particular offseason has been a bit insane in that lots of players that are pretty darn good but not necessarily all-time greats are getting longer contracts. Part of this is just an unusually robust free agent market, but part of it is that some teams realized that since the luxury tax (kind of an informal salary cap) calculations factor in the average annual value of a deal, spreading the deal out longer than the player will be good or useful might actually be a net gain on the team because they can be really good for most of the player's deal and then hopefully replace them with homegrown, cheap talent on the back end of the deal.

Before this year, basically the longest deals given out were 10 year deals, and those would only go to guy who were on a hall of fame trajectory and very, very young. But now, in this offseason, it's been a bit of an arms race, in part because the Mets are just throwing absolutely obscene amounts of money at some of the best players on the market. Last year the Mets set an all time MLB payroll high with something like $230M or so. This year, the Mets payroll is over $400M with luxury tax penalties.

The Correa situation is also a bit odd because Correa already had a 13 year deal lined up with a different team, and then yesterday they delayed their announcement of the signing due to "awaiting test results" with no further information. The Mets had made a late push to sign Correa only hours before he signed that deal with the Giants, and then all of a sudden in the middle of the night we find out that Correa's deal with the Giants is gone and the Mets swooped in with this offer. VERY rarely do you see deals like this fall apart, and for the Mets to already have a new deal in place before most people even knew the old deal fell apart is completely nuts.

The Mets are just turning the entire sport on its head. And it's great for fans and players.

Miguel Indurain?

I’ve got like a 12 oz tub for mine, time to lace up those running shoes and get in the record books !

Most of the world, apparently

At this rate, the hardest part about the Tour De France is not getting caught.

All of that team effort just to snub an egg

Once?

Is it because there is no dislike?

Wasn’t there an incident in the Tour de France once where they busted the 1st place winner for PEDs then the medal went to the runner up? But then they kept busting the runner up for PEDs all the way down to the 10th place finisher.

It’s true. I don’t even run but one time I had eczema and got prescribe this medication. I somehow entered and almost won the NYC Marathon but I got distracted by two dogs fighting over a cat.

If true, curious to see who plays SS between him and Lindor. That should be fun for the clubhouse.

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I'm sorry, after how dirty the Netherlands played against Spain in the final you don't have a leg to stand on.

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...you mean you can't un bang that garbage can.

I seen an edit of it that starts with Harry Kanes penalty and a ball flying over their heads causing them to duck 😂

I bet the Mets do too. Giants may have dodged a bullet.

Bruh, literal shambles. I really want to know what happened with that physical

So…cycling.