Now that the offseason is upon us and we’ve gone almost three days without any baseball at all to distract us, thoughts of 2019 are dancing in our heads. As AAOP season is set to begin and we all play armchair GM, an evaluation of the Mets’ 40-man roster situation is warranted.
Lukas Vlahos analyzed the potential cost of the decision not to bring up Peter Alonso in September, weighing an extra year of control against the value Alonso could have provided the team in the short-term. As Alonso destroys the Arizona Fall League in the early going, let’s now tackle the 40-man roster argument.