With the offseason coming to a close, the Mets' 2012 Opening Day payroll looks to be settling somewhere in the neighborhood of $90M. Nominally speaking, that's an historic dropoff from last year's Opening Day payroll of roughly $143.2M (per Cot's, adjusting for Taylor Buchholz's roster bonus). There's just no way to paint a $50M+ decline [...]
2012 TOPPS R.A. DICKEY Who needs Punxsatawney Phil? I prefer my predictive tools in pack form. So there I was in Target on February 2, gazing at all manner of configurations of the new 2012 Topps baseball cards. I grabbed a 72-card pack, a couple of racks, and a few wax packs. By my reckoning, [...]