espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7495...The largest one-year payroll slashing in Major League Baseball history might not belong to the then-Florida Marlins, whose offseason fire sale six years ago landed Carlos Delgado and Paul Lo Duca with the New York Mets and gutted the team's payroll from $60 million to $15 million.
The distinction, it turns out, soon may belong to the 2012 Mets.
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espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7495...Remember when Mike Wilpon, who's extremely close with the Wilpon family, claimed Madoff saying the Wilpons were blameless was PROOF that the Wilpons were squeaky clean?