[Déjà Bru]

You know who is a big fan of the team owner spending historically large amounts of money on baseball players? The guy who has built a highly successful career convincing team owners to spend large amounts of money on baseball players.

Two years into Steve Cohen’s tenure as Mets owner, he has developed a strong working relationship with agent Scott Boras that Boras seems to enjoy very much. “Our game needs Goliaths. We have to have Goliaths,” Boras said Thursday at Citi Field, where he attended the news conference for Brandon Nimmo’s eight-year, $162 million contract. “You can envision Steve Cohen hanging onto the Empire State Building. It’s maybe not Steve Cohen. It’s maybe Steve Kong.”

Boras called back to his old supermarket analogy, which he used to razz the former owners, the Wilpons, by saying they shopped in the “fruit and nuts aisle.” But these Mets? “They’re pretty much always after the premiums of the store,” Boras said. “No doubt.”

Or as Nimmo described the change between the old Mets and new Mets: “It’s been eye-opening, it’s been crazy and a little bit surreal to go through.”