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Latest On The Mets’ Deadline Plans

By Mark Polishuk | July 23, 2016 at 1:22pm CDT

The Mets aren’t likely to make a big splash at the trade deadline, as Mike Puma of the New York Post notes that the team simply doesn’t have the prospect depth to acquire a big bat as they did last season with Yoenis Cespedes.  A bullpen addition is still in the team’s plans, however, and as Puma reports in a separate tweet, the Mets could add one reliever prior to August 1 and then another in the August waiver period.  Just yesterday, Puma reported that Jeremy Jeffress, Joe Smith and Chris Withrow were a few of the relief names on the Mets’ radar.

It could be a quiet deadline in another sense for the Mets should the team suddenly hit a slump, as Newsday’s Marc Carig reports that the Mets wouldn’t become deadline sellers in the event that they were to fall back in the standings over the next week.  In fact, the Mets would likely still look to buy even if they did have a losing streak, as the team is looking ahead to a weak September schedule as an opportunity to make a late run at a wild card, if not the NL East if the Nationals slow down.

At least a couple of notable teams (the Royals and White Sox) are considering becoming deadline sellers after a dip in form, and the Yankees have long been seen as candidates to unload veterans as August 1 approaches.  Any of these teams could become big players in the trade market if they made some of their established stars available, and the Mets could follow suit by shopping Cespedes or Neil Walker.  In regards to those two, however, Carig reports that the team prefers to receive draft pick compensation in the form of the qualifying offer if either or both leave in free agency this winter.  The Mets also don’t have interest in dealing Bartolo Colon, which isn’t surprising given the injury questions within their rotation.

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10 Comments

  1. surgecola

    9 years ago

    Plawecki for Withrow

    Reply
  2. rubionyc

    9 years ago

    Cespedes has this thing called a NO TRADE CLAUSE

    Reply
    • hotdoug5638

      9 years ago

      Then how he get traded to the mets

      Reply
      • kingjenrry

        9 years ago

        He’s on a different contract now than he was last year. This stuff is really easy to look up.

        Reply
  3. trolofson

    9 years ago

    Mets should try and use Harvey to gain assets…their SP core’s future with wheeler is strong enough to use Harvey for some offensive depth or bullpen help

    Reply
  4. AgeeHarrelsonJones

    9 years ago

    duda

    Reply
  5. 1tav

    9 years ago

    The Mets should try to trade d’Arnaud, Flores, and Gilmartin for Lecroy. I know at first glance it seems a little light, but the Brewers would be buying low on a #1 catcher, in that ballpark hitting 5th Flores would probably put up something like
    .270 25 80 playing 150 games a year. Gilmartin would make a good #4 SP, maybe
    even a #3 for Mil. He’s had no arm troubles and could easily give 200 IP and a 4.00 ERA.

    Reply
    • ExileInLA 2

      9 years ago

      MIL would laugh. Lucent gets them at least 1 top 50 prospect.

      Reply
      • ExileInLA 2

        9 years ago

        Lucroy (autocorrect…)

        Reply
    • JT19

      9 years ago

      Hmmm…biased much? That offer is laughable.

      Reply

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