Mets 長，率いる into spring training knowing 期待s are high
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) - 長，率いるing into a season with a 記録，記録的な／記録する payroll 事業／計画（する）d at $370 million, the New York Mets realize the 期待s.
"Is our season a 失敗 if we 勝利，勝つ 90 - whatever number you want to come up with?" 経営者／支配人 Buck Showalter said Tuesday, a day ahead of the team's 報告（する）／憶測ing day. "It´s about the endgame."
Justin Verlander, the AL Cy Young Award 勝利者 調印するd to an $86.7 million, two-year 契約, threw his first bullpen 開会／開廷／会期 for the Mets.
"Just like all 投手s, 関わりなく their background and their success, you´re trying to serve their needs and create an atmosphere that they can be as good as they can be," Showalter said.
Max Scherzer or Verlander 人物／姿／数字s to start the March 30 opener at Miami with baseball buzzing about the team's 記録，記録的な／記録する spending under owner Steve Cohen.
New York won 101 games last year, second-most in franchise history but was unable to 持つ／拘留する off Atlanta in the NL East after sitting 頂上に the 分割 for all but six days. The Mets were 除去するd by San Diego in a three-game Wild Card Series.
FILE - New York Mets 投手 Justin Verlander …に出席するs a news 会議／協議会 at Citi Field, Dec. 20, 2022, in New York. After the Atlanta 勇敢に立ち向かうs 決起大会／結集させるd for the 分割 肩書を与える and the Mets were 除去するd in the first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of the プレーオフs, Mets owner Steve Cohen went on an epic spending spree that 含むd the 新規加入s of 投手s Verlander and Kodai Senga. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
"You don´t talk about it," Showalter said. "It´s 肉親，親類d of those looks, without 説 anything. They know, believe me. Like, who in here likes talking about unpleasant times?"
While losing Jacob deGrom, Taijuan Walker and Chris Bassitt in 解放する／自由な 機関, the Mets 追加するd Verlander, Jos? Quintana and Kodai Senga to join Scherzer and Carlos Carrasco in the rotation. New York re-調印するd closer Edwin D?az and outfielder Brandon Nimmo and 取って代わるd catcher James McCann with Omar Narv?ez.
All the spending 増加するd the Mets' 事業／計画（する）d payroll to $370 million for 2023 and $390 million for 目的s of the 高級な 税金 - which would result in a 税金 of about $115 million.
"Our 期待 is to 勝利，勝つ the 選手権," D?az said. "We are looking 今後 to start winning games and trying to be in the World Series."
Showalter is pleased with the swi tch to a balanced schedule.
"We played the 79 games in our 分割 last year. Almost half our season was played in our 分割 last year," Showalter said. "We´re playing 52 this year. Do the math that´s 27 いっそう少なく."
Showalter said the Mets are 希望に満ちた outfielder Starling 市場 will be ready for 開始 day に引き続いて 核心 muscle 外科 on Nov.. 1.
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