It seems the Yankees will at least take a peek at the outfield market after losing Aaron Judge for a stretch, as Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports. The club is in the early stage of considering the possibilities, with GM Brian Cashman believing his front office has not “peeled the onion enough to tell you exactly what we will do.” The obvious internal choice, Clint Frazier, still isn’t available but could be soon. Otherwise, it seems the team may mostly be looking at finding a player who can help bridge the gap and perhaps then function as a fourth outfield or bench bat option once Judge’s wrist heals and he’s ready to take the field again.
Now let’s jump over to Queens…
- The Mets are drawing wide interest in righty Zack Wheeler, Andy Martino of SNY.tv tweets. That creates an interesting situation for the organization, as Joel Sherman of the New York Post explores in his latest piece. While Wheeler has been the starter the Amazins have been most willing to deal, they’ve seen a recent transformation in his mental approach to the game that’s resulted in him making good on his excellent potential. Because of that, his value to them has gone up, and now they’re not sure whether they’ll be able to find a taker who will pay an appropriate price for him. Of course, Wheeler’s set to become a free agent after the 2019 season, so there’s little reason to hang onto him unless the Mets feel as though they can get a better package for him this offseason, or on the off-chance that they fancy themselves contenders in 2019.
- Though there’s a chance that Wheeler could leave Queens, backstop Devin Mesoraco appears to be the likeliest player left on the roster to be dealt, per Mike Puma of the New York Post (Twitter link). Mesoraco came to New York in the trade that sent Matt Harvey to the Reds, and he’s improved his production since coming over from Cincinnati. Mesoraco sports a .229/.308/.405 slash with the Mets, and has hit seven of his eight homers since the trade. His contract expires at season’s end, however, and there are certainly teams (such as the Yankees) who could use a catcher.
- Mets third baseman Todd Frazier is expected to begin a rehab assignment with High-A St. Lucie tonight. The 32-year-old veteran’s decline has continued this season, as he’s hit just .217/.300/.385. Frazier signed a two-year, $17MM deal with the Mets just this past offseason, but has only been able to take the field for 260 plate appearances so far after amassing at least 575 in each of the previous five seasons. He’s dealt with both hamstring and rib issues this season.
The Mets are years away with this roster. Not sure why they wouldn’t try to work out a trade with the Padres or Yankees for degrom.
Why would they do that for the Yankees?
You do realize he said trade with the Yankees, not give the Yankees deGrom for free, right?
the Yankees wont part with multiple top prospects, so no trade!! everybody wants DeGrom for peanuts and that’s insanity….Torres, Frazier, Sheffield, and some lesser prospects and I bet the Mets would bite…look at what the White Sox got for Sale is what I would shoot for if I was Ricco….
Degrom is good but idk if he’s Sale good
Please go look at his stats and get back to me. He’s every bit the player Sale is.
That’s a pretty good comp though. At least in 2018. Sale and deGrom are two of the best in the biz.
Crazy how no one’s linked Boston to deGrom yet, tbh.
Boston doesn’t have nearly the high level of prospects it would take for Degrom, maybe unless they part with Devers and Benny which almost certainly wont happen.
Sale had more years of control 3 vs 2.5 and has been completely dominant with no history of injuries his entire career. Was also younger than degrom is 30 y/o for degrom now.
Agreed. I think we can count Boston out of high level trades for a little while.
Sale always fades the second half of the season.
Huh
Um no he is not as good as Sale and he is older and not nearly the consistency. He has had a very good year but even this year Sale has been better.
Lol, Torres straight up for deGrom wouldn’t happen, let alone Torres, Frazier, Sheffield, etc. Get out of here with that.
Sales can’t beat the Stankees. Also has anyone realllllly said the Red Sox have a big time big game pitcher
Where have you been? Boston’s lack of prospects has been discussed ad nauseam
What are you talking about are you on crack? Sale owns the Yankees. He has the best Era against the Yankees of any pitcher I believe. He is the one guy the Yankees don’t like to see on the Red Sox.
“Active”
DeGrom is not as good or as valuable as Chris Sale. Next the White Sox did not get anyone off the Red Sox major league Roster.
agreed
I would trade Sheffield, Andujar, and Frazier for deGrom
How many RINGS does Sale have
And who would take over at 3b right now? Walker? No. Sheff, Frazier and a lower guy is enough
I wouldn’t. Not after what Andujar has shown with the bat in the majors. Sheffield is a top 25 prospect and if Frazier was eligible, he would easily be as well.
Teams win rings. I haven’t heard of an individual player winning a ring all by himself.
Seriously
Did you just ask how many rings does Sale have is that your retort wow.
Yankee fan you are. Sale lags cuz he was used too long n too much the first half/yr
Not this year just hitting his stride he came out last year firing wanted to show he was worth the trade. I will be surprised if he wilts in the 2nd half this year. He is on fire right now exactly how he started last year right away.
So he can’t be one of the best because a lack of rings? Well then so much for Trout and Kershaw.
Hey 4
Learn how to spell or use spell check.
Otherwise people will rightfully think that your namesake is starting to disconnect wires to your brain.
Or he’s not capable of pacing himself given that his manly body wears out.
August is coming Bruin. Last year he was fine thru mid August, then a sma dip and then very hittable in September.
No sir he is not. Nor has he shown quite the sustained excellence that Sale has.
I’m not sure you understand how trades work…
Frazier is too risky for the Mets given their team’s and his personal health history. If the Mets trade a top starter, they can’t lose the trade as the press, fans, etc. would crucify the team even more than current.
Let’s see this year. New staff is working him different. While he didn’t get the win Friday, he’ll still un up with the Cy Young trophy and hopefully a WS ring as well.
Sale, when traded, was several years younger than Degrom is now. Plus Sale hadn’t had TJ surgery or the assortment of hand, forearm, shoulder and hoof and mouth disease, like Degrom. But keep on dreaming the Muts can get young players like Torres, Sheffield and Frazier for a 30 year old pitcher with major milage on his arm and shoulder, along with an even more lengthy injury history.
After all, dreams are about all Muts fans have, at this point.
derp!! DeGrom didn’t have hoof and mouth disease or any injuries the last few years…..some Yankee fans smh…..lmao
Yea Mikeyank and Sale has never looked better how you feeling about your Ace Severino about now? Sale is just hitting his stride.
Until the winter. If they don’t win it all in 18, they could trade off their MLB roster. Praying for Price to find success, lead the team to the championship and where he runs with his WS MVP into free agenxy.
Sale “owns the Yankees.” Is that why Boston was 1-4 in his 5 starts last year ? And, the one win was the one where Chapman blew the save on the Devers home run. You are wrong, but enjoy your years supply of Turtle Wax and RiceARoni, the San Francisco treat.
Yup let’s just look at W/L last year from a poor offensive club that couldn’t support Sale. He is 2-0 this year so far and given up 1 run in 13 innings and has absolutely dominated the Yankees this year. Last year he had two starts at the end of the year that he pitched poorly in the first three 22 2/3 three earned. That’s three games all that he went at least 7 innings and three earned. His ERA against the Yankees is the lowest of any opposing active pitcher in baseball. But yea let’s cherry pick a few games that his teammates couldn’t score runs in oh yea let’s also forget the complete domination this year. I guarantee the last guys the Yankees want to see in one game elimination game is Sale. Oh and yes when Sale was with the White Sox the worst game in his starting career against the Yankees 7 innings three earned. I would say domination of Yankees hitters he can’t help if his offense can’t score Sale did his job complete domination of Yankees hitters since 2013. Argue that all you want but the numbers Sale has put up against the Yankees are incredible. But yea thanks for playing costergaard.
Major mileage? He didn’t start pitching until mid-way through COLLEGE. He has waaaaay less “mileage” on his arm than guys 3-4+ years younger than him because he didn’t overworked as an amateur.
Because the Mets care more about selling tickets than winning championships, so they won’t rebuild like they should. Terrible organization and terrible owner.
That’s the whole Tebow signing in a nutshell. Man those owners must have cried themselves to sleep when he broke his hand.
100% accurate and this is coming from a mets fan (Tragically I know.)
winning championships sells more tickets.
So Bencole are you joining the Mets boycott?
2016 wild card and 2015 W/S. The Stanyees don’t want to give up a anything. The Mets having pitching so getting pitching back is not making them better. Col. Is the only team that have a 3B & SS in the minors that will help. Also Nolan & Story have them both blocked from coming up. I would even add another pitcher(Blevins maybe). Nobody has a real right-hand CF. Alonso can play 1B next year too. Resign Messaroco. And please look and see how many games(32) the bullpen have lost. Stankee fans worry about your team. It hasn’t been good these last few weeks
I can’t tell what’s worse, the way the Mets run their team or your awful insults and grammar
Better a few weeks which isn’t true by the way, then oh say the next 5-7 years.
Mets ownership is inept.
Sales can’t beat the Stankees. Also has anyone realllllly said the Red Sox have a big time big game pitcher
Grow up. Stankees? Good lord.
STANKEES. Spend $25 mil on a R when they have a top 3 RF already. Happ, is that the best they can get. STANKEES
It’s a good thing Stanton can be moved to left/DH/right, ain’t it? Mets are the laughingstock of baseball, however. Cheers!
Because neither have what the Mets need
They are the epitome of distinction. They still blame Bernie madoff for their struggles. The Yankees were in a serious rebuild a year ago and look where cashman has taken them. The difference in leadership is astounding! Go Yankees
The Mets are probably the only team in any of the 4 major sports that would have an attitude like, “We’ve won 70 games two years in a row. Let’s change nothing and shed payroll, but win next year instead!”
Not that I disagree with what you’re trying to say, you’re also speaking of the same team that had the same approach and went to the WS only 3 years ago. Their luck with injuries and poor FA signings is much to blame in recent years.
The Mets should have gone back to the WS once or twice again with amazing pitching staff, but ownership seemingly never got serious about improving the rest of the team, including the minors. Remind me of the Orioles
Just think…..
Tonight could be deGroms last start as a NY Met
But it won’t be.
Hopefully.
DeGrom deserves better.
I feel like the Yankees need to hold off on the trades and just use Frazier
The Yankees have a bunch of quality guys in the minors that will be eligible for the Rule V draft. I would keep make trades surrounding those players, even if it leads to some A, AA prospects that they can hold on to as opposed to the immediate 40-man roster. However, if they get Archer or one of the top rotation guys from the Twins or O’s, I would be happy too.
I wouldn’t worry about the rule 5 draft too much. I think the yanks lost 4 guys this year but got them all back.
I don’t know. They’ve moved a lot of prospects that were rule 5 guys. We have a lot of decent guys that could turn into top 100 guys but only a few at AA OR AAA.
he isn’t healthy right now, thats why they need to make a trade.
One other option not mentioned regarding Wheeler…they could extend him. If he’s finally turning the corner, now may be the time to cash in on that talent they expected instead of trading him.
Possible, but if he feels he’s turned the corner he may want a bigger extension than they are willing to offer a guy for a couple months of good results.
If they want to trade him in the offseason; an extension before then would also possibly diminish his value
If the Reds would include Hunter Greene in a package for a pitcher, I say call call call
Why in the world would the Reds trade probably the future face of the franchise?
Wheeler for Frazier
No. And where would you put Frazier? Got Cespedes, Bruce, Conforto, Nimmo, and Lagares.
Comforto seems to be a bust. Bruce could play 1st. Cespedes is out for the next 12-15 months. Are you really saying that the Mets outfield should prevent them from trying to improve it? “We have a .230 outfielder who has hit 14 homers. We good!”
Conforto is a bust? Looks to me like he was rushed back from a freak injury .. guy is starting to hit .. look at his numbers before he went down last year … there was debate at that point about which young NY OF you’d rather have between him and Judge
Nimmo and Conforto are the only two on that list probably playing the rest of the year. Lagares and Bruce are hopeless and Cespedes is going to miss most or all of next year. Why wouldn’t they want Frazier?
Yankees need to keep Frazier for now, way too much to give up
I think Mets will keep Wheeler. way more affordable than a replacement for him would be. They need to sign a catcher that can hit (Grandal or Ramos), a setup man and closer (great options for pen in free agency), and a RH power hitter for corner IF. I’m certain Alonso gets a September callup but no chance I rely on just him. I don’t care where the additional bat plays on the field but they need one guy that can scare opposition because Cespedes is likely done for next year with the way the Mets recover from injuries. Almost 60 mil coming off the books plus insurance money on Cespedes and Wright. Ownership is at highest risk ever of losing the fan base. even the wilpons have to realize this.
#boycottTheNewYorkMets
I was with you until “plus insurance money” bc ownership has been quoted as considering Wright’s full salary as part of the payroll and the insurance payments separate. I’m not sure of Ces’ contract and insurance, but don’t be surprised if there is insurance money…that it is going back into the Wilpon’s pockets like Wright’s money.
And what’s exactly wrong with an OF of Gardner, Hicks, and Stanton??
Then, once Frazier comes back and is healthy, they’ll have 4 more than capable starting OF’ers..
Plus, can’t one of Bird or Andujar play LF decently??
Idk, with those four more than capable talents, it just doesn’t make any sense for the Yankees to limit themselves by solely looking for an OF’er, to replace the injured Judge…
Although, I’m not really sure what they’ll he able to expect from Judge, even when he does return from his wrist injury.
Freeman’s wrist injury didn’t limit his abilities when he returned, but Freeman also doesn’t primarily rely on power to make an impact..
Wrist injuries are known to sap a players power, even after they are deemed healthy enough to play. Now, Judge clearly could sacrifice some power, and he’d still be a beast, but I highly doubt when he returns he will be 100% hisself..
Even so, New York’s ballpark is an absolute joke of a major league stadium, so it does not even take a warning track pop fly to clear the RF wall..
Immediately off the bat, I thought Acuña Jr.’s game winner against New York was going to be a lazy pop fly to RF…But miraculously somehow it was a cheap HR that hit and bounced over the top of the wall..I also thought the same thing when Giancarlo hit his cheapshot in the 1st inning of that game..
How is their RF even legal in major league baseball..!?!? It’s absurd the amount of Home Runs that go out of their stadium that would be nothing more than routine fly balls in almost every other park..
Annyways, my apologies for the rant..lol But yeah, if NY is dead set on an OF’er, maybe Cash can acquire Hamilton as a 4th OF’er, pinch-runner, and a real playoff weapon, where every run counts..OR maybe they could give a guy like Granderson one last hoorah and let him go on a goodbye tour in NY, during their Championship hopeful run…
Bird would be horrible in the outfield, way to slow. Frazier will not be out that much longer, and they can make do till then. Bird or Andujar in the outfield would make Schwarber look like Willie Mays.
You do understand that the only game the Braves won that series was because of the short porch correct? Homeruns make baseball more interesting, deal with it. Lol at Bird playing LF
Really? Because homeruns have been more prevalent the last 25 years and the numbers/ratings were better pre-strike. So do homers really make things interesting? Because all they do is prolong a game the commissioner is hell-bent on shortening.
Maybe surprise bunts, hit and runs, great pitching, great plays, out-of-nowhere plays make baseball more interesting rather than the same homerun after homerun after pitching change after pitching change. Maybe.
Bring the running game back with triples and the stolen bases…please!
Thanks for the Rant about our home ball park, Yankee Stadium, one of, if not the most iconic ball yards in all of Baseball.
I also sounds as if your an ardent football fan because its pretty obvious you don’t know squat about baseball.
And by the way KMA!
Zack Wheeler Trade Proposals:
1. Brewers Acquire:
Zack Wheeler
Mets Acquire:
Corey Ray and Jacob Nottingham
2. Diamondbacks Acquire:
Zack Wheeler
Mets Acquire:
Dalton Varshao, Taylor Widener, and Wei Chieh Huang
3. Braves Acquire:
Zack Wheeler
Mets Acquire:
Joey Wentz, Jean Carlos Encarnacion and Alex Jackson
4. Mariners Acquire
Zack Wheeler
Mets Acquire:
Kyle Lewis and Wyatt Mills
5. A’s Acquire:
Zack Wheeler
Mets Acquire:
Austin Back and Jorge Mateo
I think these trades are reasonable
Literally none of those trades would even be close to happening. Not even close. Wheeler brings back a top 15ish org guy at best. Not multiples of a org top 5.
Wheeler isn’t actually any good.
All of those are overpays for teams not named the Mets.
I would do a deal with the brewers for Corey Ray and Hiura for Wheeler ,Flores and Blevins, than sign Grandal next year with Alonso playing 1b and McNeil at 3b and trade Frazier in the off season.
Yankees should just trade Bird and Adams for Jose Abreu and call it a day.
No they shouldn’t, and that’s probably not enough for Abreu anyway.
Bird for Abreu? Lol absolutely not, Bird’s swing is perfect for Yankee Stadium and the Sox are hanging onto Abreu anyway.
Yeah, I guess. Just seems like they’re looking for a bigger power bat than Bird at 1B and Bird’s slash line currently sucks this year. I didn’t hear about the Sox hanging onto him, my bad.
Bird is finally starting to come around.
When was the last time Joel Sherman had anything original or right about the Yankees.
Bocephus – why the hard questions?
Here’s an even harder question. When was the last time Peter Gammons didn’t glamorize the 1970’s Red Sox? Oh and a ? for up top.
Gammons is and has always been a Red Sox homer, just like Jack Buck has urges for Dustin Pedroia aka his “little Petey”!
“on the off-chance that they fancy themselves contenders in 2019”
The main writers for the site have to sit down with this kid.
The mets and knicks should just get together every thursday night and play bingo, poker, table tennis and full contact scrabble.
Free food and drinks.
James dolan can teach fred wilpon how to play guitar and flute.
They should swap teams. Wilpon would LOVE to own a team in a league with a salary cap, and his penny pinching might actually be of some benefit to the fans and not just his wallet. Dolan, on the other hand, is more than willing to spend irresponsibly, and might not be as much of a disaster in a league without a salary cap.
best move mets can do is.. a 2 for 1 with toronto… yes goodbye jake hello vlad guerrero and bo bichette. vlad at 3rd base bo at 2nd amed at short alonso and smith at 1st.. nimmo conforto . young and not too bad
I wish Mets would do that deal if it was even remotely possible but no way Toronto trades either one straight up for Degrom. As a Mets fan I would do Torres or Vlad Jr for Degrom straight up and be happy with it but that won’t happen either.
id at least call .. even a 2 for 2.. those are the positions we need
id at least call .. even a 2 for 2.. those are the positions we need. be set for a long time.
I don’t care how well DeGrom is pitching, I wouldn’t trade 2 top 10 prospects for him. Especially not if I’m the Blue Jays who are not one ace pitcher away from contention. Two years of control of DeGrom is not worth the potential that Guerrero and Bichette could bring to the Jays.
i relize that but could u just imagine that line up for 10 years
No chance, that’s what you got….
Vlad is untouchable. It would be stupid for the Jays to pursue DeGrom anyway since they are in no position to win in 2019. Or 2020 for that matter. Blue Jays organization may be claiming they aren’t rebuilding. Truth is, Boston and New York will be too strong to overtake the next year or two.
Why hasn’t Tyler Austin been called back up????? He can play RF/LF or DH. If the Yanks need help at OF/DH without Judge, then why the hell was IF Tyler Wade called up when the starting IF is set in stone and Walker is on the bench for IF depth?
Because Tyler Wade and Chasen Shreve have incriminating pictures of Brian Cashman.
Probably Austin gets called up for the Boston series to face the lefty starters
He can’t hit lefties
His splits in minors and limited time this year with Yankees don’t really indicate that. Also I seem to recall him hitting a HR off Sale last year.
Mets and injuries the past two years is like an installment of Final Destination. Instead of dying they get injured and there’s no way to stop it.
Get the best deal in prospects on any player that isn’t hurt.
For Yankees how about either Cordero or Renfroe from San Diego or Calhoun from Angels? None would cost too much but could definitely fill gap in the OF and be good bat off bench when Judge returns…