{"id":421153,"date":"2026-01-20T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421153\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:50:08","slug":"the-mets-have-yet-to-figure-out-how-to-escape-the-dodgers-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421153\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mets have yet to figure out how to escape the Dodgers&#8217; shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets, much like every team in the majors, have a Dodgers problem.<\/p>\n<p>For them, though, it comes with a runner-up syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember that in March 2012, Guggenheim Partners circumvented a final bidding process by buying the Dodgers for a then-MLB record $2.15 billion. The runner-up was Steve Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams have since been the last main bidders on four huge free agents. The Dodgers have won each \u2014 Trevor Bauer, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Edwin D\u00edaz and Kyle Tucker. The Dodgers were interested in Juan Soto, but were not fighting mano a mano in the end with the Mets \u2014 the Yankees were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets, much like every team in the majors, have a Dodgers problem. For them, though, it comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[7203,49,48,484,510,487,462,475,82,2091,2089],"class_list":{"0":"post-421153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-bo-bichette","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-edwin-diaz","12":"tag-kyle-tucker","13":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}