HBT: Mets' payroll drop biggest in MLB history?

This is fun. From Adam Rubin of ESPN New York:

After general manager Sandy Alderson revealed the organization lost $70 million last year, the Mets appear poised to have the biggest one-year payroll drop in MLB history ? roughly $52 million. That would surpass the former record: $48.4 million by the?Texas Rangers?from 2003 to 2004, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

On the one hand: depressing! ?Big market + new ballpark + their own sports network should = big payrolls.?On the other hand: they?ve had big payrolls for years, and they haven?t broken 80 wins since 2008.

The team is gonna be fairly bad this year no matter what. It may be kind of embarrassing for the league and for some fans that a New York team is slashing payroll so dramatically. But it?s probably better to be cheap and terrible than expensive and terrible, no?

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/27/the-mets-may-experience-the-largest-payroll-decline-in-baseball-history/related/

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