The Chicago Cubs were willing to make Craig Counsell the highest-paid manager in Major League Baseball history, and the New York Mets reportedly weren't.
According to Will Sammon of The Athletic, the Cubs' offer for their new manager "was significantly higher than what the Mets were offering him." Sammon noted that "some of that difference can be attributed to the belief that he held only mild interest in coming to the Mets in comparison to joining the Cubs."
The Cubs announced they fired David Ross and hired Counsell on Monday, and ESPN's Jeff Passan noted they made him the league's highest-paid manager in history with a richer contract than the one Joe Torre previously had of approximately $8 million per year.