With Steve Cohen’s purchase of the Mets having been approved yesterday, we don’t know what exactly the team will look like moving forward, but it’s not hard to dream of much better times when you see things like Jeff Passan’s tweet that Cohen is intent on building “an east coast version of the Dodgers.”
If that is, indeed, Cohen’s goal, one of the many ways to make the Mets a great baseball team on a perennial basis would be retaining their own players for the long term by signing them to contract extensions. It’s something the Mets largely avoided under the Wilpons, with David Wright and Jacob deGrom having been the most notable exceptions and Jon Niese having been signed to a five-year extension with two team options just as the 2012 season got underway.