The Cubs traded journeyman catcher Joe Hudson to the Mets yesterday, per the teams’ transaction logs at MLB.com. It’s presumably a cash deal that’ll give the Mets some additional depth behind the plate. Hudson was assigned to Double-A Binghamton.
Hudson, 32, has seen brief action in three big leagues seasons but none since 2020. He has just 33 MLB plate appearances under his belt. Hudson has spent the past two seasons in Triple-A with the Rays and Braves, hitting for a low average but posting strong on-base marks and showing off good pop at the plate. He was hitless in eight plate appearances with the Cubs’ Iowa affiliate in 2024 but batted .230/.362/.432 with 20 homers in just 437 plate appearances with the top affiliates for the Rays and Braves from 2022-23.
Behind the plate, Hudson is 0-for-7 in halting steals at the MLB level but boasts an enormous 40% caught-stealing rate in 11 minor league seasons. He’s also typically posted strong framing marks in the upper minors, per Baseball Prospectus.
The Mets are set at catcher on the big league roster, with young Francisco Alvarez shouldering the bulk of the workload and veteran Omar Narvaez backing him up. In Triple-A, they’ve got veteran Tomas Nido and well-traveled Austin Allen — a pair of backstops with big league experience (quite a bit of experience, in Nido’s case). For now, Hudson will head to Double-A and pair with top catching prospect Kevin Parada.
Mets doing a good job collecting other teams discarded garbage
Johnny Every single team does it. It’s a depth move. Get a grip. Is this LFGMets?
Johnny I DK if you know but you are allowed to take a day off from being the preeminent fool on this site. There’s plenty others to pick up the slack.
@MutsSchmuck
i’m the only one with any common sense around here
@JohnnyUtah
“A wise man never knows all. Only fools know everything”
@Johnny utah common sense? but apparently no life
Lol Lol Johnny utah Lol
Let the guy speak.
At least this time they aren’t paying 30 mil + for it though
Who was the other discarded trash that the Mets paid +$30 mil for?
well muts are paying about $70 million to players not on their team. a couple of them havent been on the squad in 25 years lol
and on top of that they’re paying another 30 million to absolute low down dirty garbage bush league trash waste
so about 100 million dollars for absolutely nothing. even ohtani didnt gamble away that much money (not yet)
@johnny
Remember perspective is always key. You can CHOOSE to see things however you want.
My neighbor bought a brand new Range Rover then traded it in 1 month later cause he didn’t like it the way he thought he would. Lost money on the deal.
One person I know called him dumb while another person I know said he wished he had enough money to do things like that.
Perspective! Just be happy.
@cohen
there’s only 1 way to look at it.
cohen is a billionaire spending on the mets like its monopoly money. and every muts fan out there is a hopeless dreamer stuck in a timeloop of 1986 highlights who waste precious time on a disappointing underwhelming perpetually failing freak show circus joke humiliation of a sports franchise. if you choose to look at it any other way, you are essentially choosing to live in the twilight zone. meanwhile the rest of us are doing our best to live in reality.
@Johnnyutah .. how come when you’re asked to account for *ANY* of your logic all you can say is “Bobby Bonilla”?
You regurgitate a misunderstanding of that contact and then go about the day thinking you’re brilliant.
THE. METS. MADE. MONEY. FROM. THAT. CONTACT.
Also it enabled us to nab Mike Hampton and later on the comp pick from Hampton signing with the Rockies got us David Wright.
Another swing and miss from Point Break.
@johnny
LMAO you have more serious issues than I thought lol.
I will tell you that it is fun reading your posts, you definitely are funny. And yes, funny like you amuse me and im sure many others.
Please keep going.
Gilbert, Acuna and Clifford are absolutely nothing? For someone claiming to have the most common sense you seem to have zero.
Oh my god. Muts? Brilliant. Ya goofy.
Just mute the obvious troll “Johnny Utah”. Your life will improve
@john
Lol I think he muted me instead of the other way around. I’ll miss laughing at his posts lol.
@cohen
Didnt mute
Not much else to say to ignorant hopeless naive mets fans. Ill let you continue living in lala land
Obviously something to say lmao you responded. Let’s keep it going. Don’t mute me please, too funny.
Johnny
Keep telling everyone else to go on living in LaLa land while you ignore all our points with your fingers in your ears and calling yourself smart. Just realize you’re fooling nobody here you troll
Cohens_Wallet: johnny utah writes much like MarlinsFanBase did last year, and I liked the back and forth with that outsider critic, too.
Sometimes you would get some well thought-out points, some critical thinking. Most other times, just this stuff.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
@johnny
“Not much else to say to ignorant hopeless naive mets fans”
you say this so much yet you keep coming back with your nonsense. just save yourself and real baseball fans time and go back to getting kicked in the head by bodie and rosey
You have to field 9 no
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@j-Utah
“i’m the only one with any common sense around here”
You’re the only one, eh? That is a whole lot of arrogance shoved into one statement. I’m really hoping you aren’t a Braves fan. We have enough like you. I’m sure just about every fan of every team is saying the same thing.
Besides, the Braves are still paying Bruce Sutter for his contract from the 80’s.
There’s a few of them out there. Ichiro Suzuki, Chris Davis, Ken Griffey Jr. It happens in other sports. The Mets take to much heat for this.
very true and the mets had others in there like it was either saberhagen or appier they owed deffered money until a year or two ago but the bonilla one was just such a weird one is why it stood out. Just like the ohtani one will in the future im sure.
i dont like that deferred money doesnt get fully accounted for regardless of “worth” because why wouldnt the yankees get a reduction for year 10 for cap purposes for judge
I would say half of the deferred gets accounted during the actual playing years and the other half gets done during the deferred years.
Exactly!
You ever think this may be to help Parada with his defense by being an example?
Kevin Parada won’t get to benefit as Hudson was already elevated to the AAA Syracuse roster and started the second game of Syracuse’s Sunday doubleheader.
So true.
Itssss hapennnnning. After 2 out of 3 in Atlanta, now they are going for it.
Professional minor leaguer.
Even still, he’s probably a better hitter than Nido, who is abysmal at the plate. Purely a depth move that they hopefully don’t need. If Alvarez or Narvaez gets injured, Hudson can maybe get the call. He may also be able to help out Parada a bit.
lol What makes you say he’s “probably’ a better hitter than Nido? nuthin’ right. He’s organizational filler.
Maybe they brought him in to mentor Parada, who hasn’t started out like a first round pick.
I agree, not only Parada but the pitchers in AA. While the Mets look better of late, I’m not expecting much this season. If they can trade Narvaez for more prospect depth and pay his salary. We still have guys like this to keep organizational depth when he gets traded or one of he and Alvarez gets hurt. Let the kids develop where they belong and use these AAAA guys to get shipped around the East Coast.
Once JD is ready, the east should be scared
His great great great great great grandfather Henry was helluva guy
He dropped his trousers at some hecklers, and they discovered he only had a half moon.
JD is ready..
John Deere..
To bury the Mets!
This clears a path for Curt Casali, ahh never mind.
Super glad the cubs could save a little money to pocket.
Enough $$$ to buy another bag of baseballs to drag behind the pitchers screen for Batting Practice. LOL
Was wondering why the Cubs signed Ali Sanchez and Casali. Guess when they signed Casali Hudson asked to be on his way.
This certainly qualifies as the most words devoted to the acquisition of a 32 year old AA catcher in the history of baseball.
I like Nido; he got his medical problems straightened out; ranks high on list of defensive catchers; couldn’t understand the need to sign Omar Narváez
@Canosucks I’d rather have Nido up and DFA Narvaez, hes finished. Can’t defend, can’t hit, waste of a roster spot
Mets team is loaded with players that resemble what falls out of my rear end
World series, here we come!
For the Rumble Ponies ?
Kings of the Eastern League?
I predict this move will not put the Rumble Ponies over the top. But it may help Kevin Parada develop if this version of Crash Davis can help.
Yes! LOL