Mets Spend $340M Yet Miss Playoffs – A Costly Baseball Lesson
The New York Mets entered the 2025 Major League Baseball season with enormous expectations. Backed by billionaire owner Steve Cohen, the team assembled a star-studded roster with a payroll exceeding $340 million, the highest in MLB history. Fans and analysts predicted that the Mets would finally emerge as a dominant force, contending not only for a playoff berth but for a World Series title. Yet, as the season came to a close, reality painted a very different picture. Despite spending …