The New York Mets are a bizarre contradiction of David Stearns' frugality (and desire to be the smartest person in the room) and Steve Cohen's brash fandom. Oddly, more often than not, Stearns' cleverness on a budget has won out over Cohen's rage instincts to do something totally out of control. The only place both men's instincts apparently overlap? When there's a free agent leaving the Yankees who's open to crossing town. Then, all bets are off.
Old-school Cohen used to splash short-term cash buckets on the likes of Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, but when that went up in flames, he moved on to entrusting Stearns' preferences.