interview with Mets radio broadcaster Howie Rose<\/a>, published Friday. \u201cObviously it\u2019s a personal decision on his part, and I thought we made a pretty respectable bid.\u201d<\/p>\nD\u00edaz signed for three years and $69 million with Los Angeles. New York\u2019s last bid was for less, though the club had suggested it could go higher. D\u00edaz didn\u2019t give that chance to the Mets, who had already signed Devin Williams the week before.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it was getting pretty hot and heavy, when this was coming down, I felt pretty good about the fact that we had signed Devin Williams,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cI described it to David, that was pretty clever, because it was a really good hedge, in case there was an unfavorable outcome with Edwin.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Mets had felt the market for Williams was moving too quickly to wait on D\u00edaz.<\/p>\n
After losing another free-agent target, Kyle Tucker, to the Dodgers, the Mets swiftly pivoted to sign Bo Bichette. Cohen said Bichette might prove to be an even better acquisition for New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrankly, once it was all done, and we got Bo to come to the Mets, (I) actually feel Bo might be a better fit for the team,\u201d said Cohen. \u201cSo I think things worked out for the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was a transformative offseason for Cohen\u2019s Mets, who saw D\u00edaz and Pete Alonso sign elsewhere while trading Brandon Nimmo and Jeff McNeil. Only one remaining Met, starter David Peterson, played for the major-league team before Cohen bought it in 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can totally understand how the fans felt when they\u2019re losing players that they develop relationships with. Listen, change is hard,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cThe players that left were the players that I started with in my ownership, day one. And so I developed pretty close relationships with some of these players.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think we stayed patient, disciplined, and I really like this team that we built. I\u2019m really excited by it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Mets fans weren\u2019t the only ones surprised by Edwin D\u00edaz\u2019s decision to sign with the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,487,462,475,82],"class_list":["post-473789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473789","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=473789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}