A while back I wrote about how the Padres and Mets were on very different trajectories this offseason as the Padres traded all of their talent in order to completely turn around their roster. Since then they have also shelled out some cash to James Shield and rumors are they will make a huge push for Yoan Moncada.
This now means the Padres and the Mets will be different in the following ways:
- Padres traded minor league prospects for major league players
- Padres committed major money to a free agent and to major league stars via trade
- Padres risked minor league talent for the next few years by going after Yoan Moncada (tentative)
Before when looking at the two teams, we needed to look at the next 5 years, which was the time it would take the minor league prospects to mature that were traded from Padres and for the Mets to have to extend and resign their minor league players that they kept. If the Padres get Yoan Moncada we probably need to look at these two teams for the next 7-8 years as case studies as the argument against signing Moncada is it blocks you from two years of amateur signings.
I’m planning over the next couple of weeks figuring out an easy way to track the Padres and the Mets for the next several years as an opportunity to see if Sandy’s wait and see will work in the long run or the Padres win now, and need to spend later works out.
