Sandy Alderson: Ability To Spend On Free Agents Will Be 'Prohibitive'
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Hoping that the Wilpons break the bank this offseason and spend big on free agents to improve the Mets?
Don't hold your breath.
"It's gonna be prohibitive, but improving a team isn't always a function of just dollars spent," general manager Sandy Alderson said on Monday in regard to spending, according to the New York Post. "Most of the improvement that came from the Mets this year had little to do with the overall (spending) … so it doesn't equate. We'll have some flexibility. We'll be able to do some things. We just have to see what's there."
Not much money is set to come off the books after the 2014 season concludes. The largest contract that the Mets will rid themselves of is Chris Young's one-year, $7.25 million deal.
New York has glaring holes at shortstop and left field, though Alderson recently hinted that those positions could be filled internally. But that doesn't mean that the GM won't browse the market for established players who can help the club right away.
"In addition to the young players that are coming through, we need to add maybe one or two veterans next year," Alderson said, according to the newspaper. "We need more offense than we've had this year. There've been two or three players who didn't produce the way we would've liked. If one of them or two of them would've produced the way we would've liked, it would've been a whole different season.
"That's the thing about free agents. You've got to be careful because they don't all work out … The quick fix isn't always the best."
The Mets enter Tuesday night's game against the Rockies with a 69-75 record.
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