Don’t get your hopes up on this. “Finalists” or not, which I truly believe we are, we would need to not only top the Mets but make it by so much, or incentivize Springer by so ridiculously much so that he plays for a team in a different country, when he is right next door to New York now, grew up there and family and friends are there. Blue Jays are being used as leverage and we still have a chance, but if we, “win” the numbers won’t even be close IMO. It will be a huge overpay in either AAV or term.
It sucks, but we are competing against a player’s hometown team that just happens to be the “it” team at the moment and is our primary competition.