If the White Sox's rumored offer is legit, EVERY TEAM should be pissed that they weren't in on Machado.
Depressing Mets' factoid:
In eight of their past 10 seasons, the Mets have lost more games than they have won. That is tied for the most sub-.500 seasons the Mets have had over any 10-year sequence of seasons in Mets franchise history. The only other 10-year period in which the Mets had eight sub-.500 seasons was 1974 through 1983, during which their only seasons above .500 were 1975 and 1976. Even the earliest Mets, though they began with seven seasons of terrible win-loss percentages, put together over-.500 seasons the next three years. Indeed, seven of the eight Mets seasons immediately after 1968 were above-.500 seasons.
The Mets’ regular season win-loss percentage over the past 10 years is currently .480. That is the lowest the Mets "preceding 10 years" win-loss percentage has been during any off-season since, interestingly, the off-season after the Mets won the World Series in 1986. At that point, the franchise had a win-loss perecentage over the preceding ten years (including that great 1986 season) of .468.