Rockies-Mets to showcase two drastic styles of MLB ownership

The 9-47 Colorado Rockies are headed to Queens this weekend to take on the New York Mets in what will be a matchup between two teams and front offices that are polar opposites of each other. The Mets love to spend all the money in the world as the MLB has yet to enforce a salary cap, while the Rockies have been doing everything in their power to pinch a couple of pennies and spend a minimal amount of money.

Heading into the three-game series, the Mets have the highest active team payroll in the league, with $255,925,246. On the other side of the spectrum is the Rockies, who sit at 24th place in the league with an active payroll of $75,863,551. That’s without the worst contract in the MLB, Kris Bryant’s 7-year, $182M robbery.

At no surprise to anyone, the team who is spending all the money and trying to put together a championship roster currently sits at a 34-22 record, tied for the third-best mark in the National League. They swung for the fences with Juan Soto and brought him to Queens on a 15-year, $765M contract while the Rockies ownership sat around and emailed fans about why they couldn’t even attempt to bring him to Denver.

On the other side of the Mets, there’s the team that inhabits the best bar in Denver in Coors Field that has an ownership group that doesn’t like to shell out a large sum of money for anything except real estate surrounding the stadium. Once again, to no surprise, this team is one of the worst in the history of baseball and is being compared to teams who had players that were born during the Civil War.

What about the splash signing the Rockies just made in Orlando Arcia, the former All-Star and World Series Champion? Don’t worry, the Rockies only threw $760,000 his way to come hit some baseballs at altitude for the rest of the season since he’s already reached his career goals. They finally got a cheap signing because it was a player that no one else in the league wanted to bring on board.

While the Mets owner, Steve Cohen, might not know as much about baseball as some other owners, as he’s a hedge fund guy who didn’t start his business ventures in baseball, he knows how to give his team a chance at winning, something that Dick Monfort hasn’t done with the Rockies. However, both guys are getting money in their pocket at the end of the day, despite the drastic difference in the on-field product between the two franchises.

Remember when Monfort complained about how there is no salary cap in baseball before the season started, even though he has plenty of cash to put towards a good baseball team?

Will the Rockies be able to win their first series of the season? Or maybe at least not get swept, which they’ve done in nine of the 18 series they’ve played this year? First pitch from Queens is at 5:10 p.m. MDT on Friday evening.

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