[Puma] “We differed on the salary part of it.” – Antoan Richardson
November 5, 2025
[Puma] “We differed on the salary part of it.” – Antoan Richardson
28 comments
Really starting to sour on Stearns, he’s gotta show me something this year.
This sucks.
This is the type of thing that 100% comes back and bites a team
At this rate, Steve should just fire Stearns and poll this sub to determine the next moves.
Can’t pay a difference making coach but we can pay 17 mil to Frankie montas to sip on pina coloadas as he chills on beach doing nothing all next season…
How many media cycles are we gonna do on a mf base coach? Holy shit dude
How do you let the one coach who did something well go to a division rival in a lateral move? This is a terrible look for Stearns and Steve
Brilliant, Stearns.
No salary cap for coaches, yet somehow the Mets couldn’t “honor” Antoan Richardson’s value, the guy who literally helped turn Mets baserunning into one of the best units in MLB.
We had 147 steals with an 89% success rate! Players like Soto credited Richardson directly, and still…Antoan’s gone because the front office “wasn’t aligned on his value.”
That’s not strategy; more ego and mismanagement. Cohen has the money, Stearns has the authority, and together they just let one of the few staff members who actually improved results on the field walk away.
WTF, over?
Stearns, you still a Mets fan?
Remember, Cohen said of Stearns he was “the final piece of the puzzle.” Cohen has billions from corruption, and mismanages an MLB team like he did is hedge fund, by allowing Stearns making stupid decisions.
Symptom of a larger issue. Really wish Stearns would stop always trying to be the smartest guy in the room and just focus on fucking winning (and stop using building up the farm as an excuse).
What is even the point of having Cohen’s money? Why sign Soto if you won’t actually build around him? Stearns got lucky with how the underwhelming SP signings fared out in ’24 and thought it would work again in ’25. It didn’t. Also if the coaching staff was such a problem, why no big changes during the season?
Just go for bonafide talent, pay them and give them the years. But nah, especially with the likely lockout coming it’s just gonna be more of the same.
I get ppl being upset but how many WS were won off the back of the 1B coach?
You also can’t have first base coaches or players trying to fleese Cohen because he is the richest owner in professional sports.
This is one side of the story.
This guy definitely seemed worth the money. If it was just money and the Braves outbid the Mets that is inexcusable.
Pretty fucking bad lol. Big Stearns defender but I don’t think I can defend this.
Hope that’s not true
We’re my Stearns stans at? How can you defense this bullshit?
His follow up tweet said it was because the mets weren’t able to match a pension because they reached their allotment of pensions…apparently there is some restriction on the number of pensions you can offer to coaching staff
seems like it was about pension restrictions and not because Stearns was just being cheap about the salary. but anything to get clicks 😒
I wasn’t in rhe clubhouse but not often you hear players go out of their way with praise like they did for him.. shame the two parties couldn’t have come to an agreement.
Massive fumble. We set stolen base records off this guy. Hes a savant and 1 of 1
lol, way to stoop to a mouth breathers level. Braves have a top-10 payroll
I’m not as mad about this as most would be as I never bought into the “Richardson is the reason for all our stolen base success!” hype. Stolen base numbers over the past 3 years, 1 of which didn’t include Richardson (he was in SF where they ranked 22nd in stolen base efficiency) lend a great deal of credence to my viewpoint.
That said, he was a good first base coach. He was into it, helped the players, always had his head in the game, showed up every day and did his job. We have the richest owner in baseball. It sucks to see that we can’t utilize that advantage in a way that wouldn’t even hurt us via the luxury tax. I’m not gonna go apeshit, but it’s just annoying. The org continues to puzzle me and oft when I find myself puzzled, I also find myself vindicated. I hope that trend doesn’t continue.
penny pinching stearns
Richardson seemed to be a good coach, and worked well with Soto and others. Too bad he’s gone.
But you shouldn’t overpay people. I know none of the numbers, so I imagine the Mets made a fair offer and Richardson declined, which he has every right to do. I wonder if he got more from the Braves … or less.
I have little doubt the Mets can hire someone to do much the same job at a similar performance level for 2026. It’s not rocket surgery, after all, and there’s plenty of baserunning knowledge and experience around the game. I hope they get someone good.
This is a wilpon level of cheapness. Coaches are one thing you can overpay without worrying about the Stearn tax.
I’m sure New York sports writers like Puma won’t make a mountain out of a molehill /s
28 comments
Really starting to sour on Stearns, he’s gotta show me something this year.
This sucks.
This is the type of thing that 100% comes back and bites a team
At this rate, Steve should just fire Stearns and poll this sub to determine the next moves.
Can’t pay a difference making coach but we can pay 17 mil to Frankie montas to sip on pina coloadas as he chills on beach doing nothing all next season…
How many media cycles are we gonna do on a mf base coach? Holy shit dude
Did the Braves meet his salary demands?
https://preview.redd.it/vzs2b2aplizf1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b5918b65dc2ca5b5fa15bbc5efdfa255536d137
How do you let the one coach who did something well go to a division rival in a lateral move? This is a terrible look for Stearns and Steve
Brilliant, Stearns.
No salary cap for coaches, yet somehow the Mets couldn’t “honor” Antoan Richardson’s value, the guy who literally helped turn Mets baserunning into one of the best units in MLB.
We had 147 steals with an 89% success rate! Players like Soto credited Richardson directly, and still…Antoan’s gone because the front office “wasn’t aligned on his value.”
That’s not strategy; more ego and mismanagement. Cohen has the money, Stearns has the authority, and together they just let one of the few staff members who actually improved results on the field walk away.
WTF, over?
Stearns, you still a Mets fan?
Remember, Cohen said of Stearns he was “the final piece of the puzzle.” Cohen has billions from corruption, and mismanages an MLB team like he did is hedge fund, by allowing Stearns making stupid decisions.
Symptom of a larger issue. Really wish Stearns would stop always trying to be the smartest guy in the room and just focus on fucking winning (and stop using building up the farm as an excuse).
What is even the point of having Cohen’s money? Why sign Soto if you won’t actually build around him? Stearns got lucky with how the underwhelming SP signings fared out in ’24 and thought it would work again in ’25. It didn’t. Also if the coaching staff was such a problem, why no big changes during the season?
Just go for bonafide talent, pay them and give them the years. But nah, especially with the likely lockout coming it’s just gonna be more of the same.
I get ppl being upset but how many WS were won off the back of the 1B coach?
You also can’t have first base coaches or players trying to fleese Cohen because he is the richest owner in professional sports.
This is one side of the story.
This guy definitely seemed worth the money. If it was just money and the Braves outbid the Mets that is inexcusable.
Pretty fucking bad lol. Big Stearns defender but I don’t think I can defend this.
Hope that’s not true
We’re my Stearns stans at? How can you defense this bullshit?
His follow up tweet said it was because the mets weren’t able to match a pension because they reached their allotment of pensions…apparently there is some restriction on the number of pensions you can offer to coaching staff
https://preview.redd.it/puhst2ozzizf1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a27576735d37ff4c56a9e41a5f175136fddba22
seems like it was about pension restrictions and not because Stearns was just being cheap about the salary. but anything to get clicks 😒
I wasn’t in rhe clubhouse but not often you hear players go out of their way with praise like they did for him.. shame the two parties couldn’t have come to an agreement.
Massive fumble. We set stolen base records off this guy. Hes a savant and 1 of 1
lol, way to stoop to a mouth breathers level. Braves have a top-10 payroll
I’m not as mad about this as most would be as I never bought into the “Richardson is the reason for all our stolen base success!” hype. Stolen base numbers over the past 3 years, 1 of which didn’t include Richardson (he was in SF where they ranked 22nd in stolen base efficiency) lend a great deal of credence to my viewpoint.
That said, he was a good first base coach. He was into it, helped the players, always had his head in the game, showed up every day and did his job. We have the richest owner in baseball. It sucks to see that we can’t utilize that advantage in a way that wouldn’t even hurt us via the luxury tax. I’m not gonna go apeshit, but it’s just annoying. The org continues to puzzle me and oft when I find myself puzzled, I also find myself vindicated. I hope that trend doesn’t continue.
penny pinching stearns
Richardson seemed to be a good coach, and worked well with Soto and others. Too bad he’s gone.
But you shouldn’t overpay people. I know none of the numbers, so I imagine the Mets made a fair offer and Richardson declined, which he has every right to do. I wonder if he got more from the Braves … or less.
I have little doubt the Mets can hire someone to do much the same job at a similar performance level for 2026. It’s not rocket surgery, after all, and there’s plenty of baserunning knowledge and experience around the game. I hope they get someone good.
This is a wilpon level of cheapness. Coaches are one thing you can overpay without worrying about the Stearn tax.
I’m sure New York sports writers like Puma won’t make a mountain out of a molehill /s