"If George is involved, we don't know it," one team executive said.

"Something like that would cripple us two and three years down the road," a team executive said.

The Mets are not going to do that, according to one team executive.

Friday afternoon wasn't the best time to reach owners or team executives.

The team executive spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal was not final.

The agent and the team executive said the number proposed for the cap would be $45 million.

The debate has caused a major split among many team executives.

Not according to team executives, one of whom called Jacobs "a class guy."

Also, his sister is having what a team executive called "serious" personal problems.

But team executives sounded firm when they said he was likely done for the season.