Steve Cohen may be selling a $10 million toilet, 3 ways the NY Mets can use the cash

3) Invest the cash in the S&P 500 and use every dollar to push a big offer over the top when the time is right

Most realistically, any extra money Cohen has floating around whether from the sale of a golden toilet, a silver bath tub, or copper urinal will go into the stock market. The gains he has can then, around sometime in February, go toward upping the price he’s willing to pay for a more notable free agent.

Usually by the time we get to those later months in the MLB offseason it’s less about teams outbidding each other and more on who is ready to blink. Alonso didn’t have some kind of crazy market last offseason. It was either going to be the Mets or the Toronto Blue Jays to budge. The Mets flinched.

$10 million can still go a long way on the fringes of the roster. If a middle reliever is looking for $8 million and the best offer he gets is for $5 million, it’s an opportunity for the Mets to swoop in. On a larger scale, if a player of Alonso’s caliber is still out there and the Mets have yet to replace him, increasing the total offer by $10 million is the best thing to do.

We understand anything Cohen gains from the sale of his toilet has little to do with how much the Mets will actually pay their players in 2026. And based on how the expenses have looked over the last few years, it’s probably going to be a part of the luxury tax penalties.

What it won’t be able to do is fully cover the cost of some of the team’s worst contracts. The $17 million the Mets are paying Frankie Montas in 2026 isn’t close to covered. We need to find out what other Scrooge McDuck-like items Cohen can put up for sale.