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Originally Posted by bhlloy
I think the point is they haven't been doing that, they've been doing the veterans getting paid way too much money and still sucking for most of that time.
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Ding! Ding! They felt that the fans would be satiated with a big name, even though in no way would one big name make a breakthrough (and you'd kill the farm system).
The Mets for too often thought they had to directly compete with the Yankees in the FA market. Hence any youth movement was usually squashed too soon.