It was reported recently that the Mets are making outfielder Brandon Nimmo available in trade talks. Andy Martino of SNY characterizes those talks as preliminary, noting that Nimmo and his representatives have not yet been asked about the possibility of waiving his full no-trade clause.
It appears that the Mets have a few moving pieces in their early offseason planning. There have also been rumors about infielder/outfielder Jeff McNeil and right-hander Kodai Senga being available in trades. Today, reporting from Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic notes that the Mets may need to trade from their roster before targeting other pursuits.
The piece mentions that this is both due to the roster fit and the financial picture, though the money is presumably not that big of an issue. Under owner Steve Cohen, the Mets have been one of the top-spending clubs in baseball. RosterResource currently projects them for a $253MM payroll and $256MM competitive balance tax figure in 2026. At the end of 2025, those numbers were $340MM and $337MM. Even without moving money away, there should be powder dry for additions.
The roster situation is a bit more interesting. The piece mentions Kyle Tucker, Cody Bellinger and Alex Bregman as completely speculative names that the Mets could pursue, depending on how their trade talks go. Currently, there’s not a great path to getting Tucker onto the roster, with the Mets having Nimmo and Juan Soto in the corners. The designated hitter spot is open and could make it more viable to have all three in the lineup regularly, but the fit would be much easier if Nimmo were moved.
It would be a somewhat similar situation with Bellinger, who the Mets have already been connected to. He’s a bit of a better fit than Tucker since he can play center field and first base, but he’s spent more time in the outfield corners than anywhere else in recent seasons.
With Bregman, there are the many unanswered questions of the Mets infield. Brett Baty, Mark Vientos, Ronny Mauricio and Luisangel Acuña have all been jockeying for playing time in recent years. Since all of them can play multiple infield positions, there are many possible combinations. The ideal arrangement would depend upon if Pete Alonso comes back, if the Mets sign someone like Bregman or Munetaka Murakami, and so on. There’s also the McNeil factor, as he has mostly played second base and the outfield corners. He has dabbled at third but hasn’t played there since 2022. He played some center field in 2025 but didn’t get great marks for his work out there.
When considering the names currently on the roster, the guys who could be traded away and the guys who could be added, there are infinite possibilities for how it ends up. Based on the reporting, it appears the Mets are using the early parts of the offseason to explore those possibilities. If they can line up a trade they like, perhaps they would then pivot to replacing a traded player by pursuing a free agent. If the roster ends up with more continuity, then perhaps they get less ambitious with their free agent pursuits. If they make any traction, then perhaps Nimmo will be approached about his no-trade clause, but it seems things are still very theoretical at the moment.
One way or another, the Mets are sure to be on the lookout for relievers. They’ve already been connected to Devin Williams. Francys Romero of BeisbolFR reports that the Mets were interested in Raisel Iglesias before he re-signed with Atlanta last night.
Mets relievers had a collective 3.93 earned run average last year, which placed them 15th out of the 30 clubs in the majors. After the season, Edwin Díaz opted out of his contract and became a free agent at season’s end. Tyler Rogers, Ryan Helsley, Gregory Soto and Ryne Stanek also departed for the open market.
Given their needs in the bullpen, the Mets will probably be connected to just about every available reliever. They have the resources to go after top guys like Díaz and president of baseball operations has also shown a penchant for getting creative in targeting lower-cost additions.
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It’s always cool to see someone’s Batting Average on the season match their career Average.
It’s always cool to see a team spend 340 million or whatever and miss the playoffs so the spending equals winning people look foolish.
You would think the team with the highest payroll would have a more complete roster. The Mets tried to hotshot their way to quick World Series title rather than organically growing as a team into a playoff contender and then using their owners deep pockets to keep the band together. Now there’s no room to grow without spending further into the luxury tax.
“The Mets tried to hotshot their way to quick World Series title rather than organically growing as a team”
When did they do that?
“Now there’s no room to grow without spending further into the luxury tax.”
What??
See past offseasons any in the cohen era. Spending a bunch like the fans want every year is a good way to not actually win ever. You’ve gotta have a good young core before you you start to spend.
I’m not going to bother educating you on the luxury tax you’re obviously not smart enough to realize the drawbacks of going so far over the luxury tax. You’re completely befuddled because cohen has the most money thinking this guy doesn’t know cohen is rich? lol.
Arite you went straight for attacking intelligence but you’re not a savant for taking 4 paragraphs to state Steve Cohen crossed over the Steve Cohen Luxury Tax threshold.
Not to “befuddle” you further but you are obviously not smart enough to realize you’re talking about a different GM than the Mets have now.
Mets almost made it to the WS just a year ago. Final 4 team is not too shabby.
I’m much smarter than you, and have forgot more about baseball than you’ll ever know. But you alresdy knew that, that’s why you’re so mad online.
Exactly. People always want to stomp on things they don’t have. “Now there’s no room to grow without spending further into luxury tax” was awesome. He knows Cohen is worth 20 billion dollars doesn’t he? Wowsers!!
Who did Cohen sign to make the Mets what they are? Marte? Mad Max? Verlander, or Soto? I just don’t see your points. Cohen bought the Mets and then added payroll. The Mets have gotten better every year. He has retooled the farm system and hired the right people. Plus he has 20 billion dollars. I get it you think Cohen is bad for baseball because he bought a team in New York.
Some people are so far behind that they think they’re leading
The Mets have better every year. False they won 83 games last year
Some people love to rub on the leg of their betters.
“The Mets have better every year. False they won 83 games last year”
That’s being either intentionally reductive, or unintentionally ignorant of the fact that there’s more to an MLB franchise than the 26 players that comprise the MLB roster.
The Mets have taken a step forward in legitimacy, infrastructure and development and objectively it’s clear the FRANCHISE is trending up in the Cohen era vs the Wilpon era.
lmao what an absolute crashout. Are you OK, dude? @vaderzim made a fun post and you flew ingo a rage. What did the Mets do to you? Also:
“so the spending equals winning people look foolish.”
Remind us who has won the WS the last two years. Last year’s NLCS was Mets-Dodgers. Last year’s WS was Yankees-Dodgers. This year was Blue Jays-Dodgers. But please go on about how you think spending somehow doesn’t mean you win more.
Remind me how the Mets in the braves did in the playoffs this year both top 5 in payroll this year. I’m not even going to mention the rays have more wins in the last 15 years than 24/30 teams in definitely not going to mention that because that’s going to make all those people that thinking spending equals winning stupid too. So im not going to mention that.
“in definitely not going to mention that because that’s going to make all those people that thinking spending equals winning stupid too. So im not going to mention that”
PERFECTION
That’s was a great line.
The Mets have a top farm system and Cohen can absolutely continue to spend more if he wants. It’s the Mets, though, so it’s probably not gonna work out for them.
Do you normally respond to the statement nobody posted?
The Mets lost by one game. Senga, who was leading the league in ERA, was injured because Alonso couldn’t make a routine toss to first. Healthy Senga would have won a couple of those games. Ailonso should never be allowed to play first base again as a Met . In fact, he almost injured McLean with the same inept throw.
Eh, that’s apologist talk. They won 83 games. Even with a couple more, thats not typically a playoff number, and only with a lot of luck is it a WS contender. Senga’s injuries notwithstanding, you can’t ignore that this is a mediocre roster with a handful of studs, but lot of holes and flaws.
One game would have been good enough to get into the playoffs.
You’re missing my point, and the big picture. Situationally speaking, yes, 1 game would have been good enough last season. But so what? I really, really mean So What!!!!
It does not make them a good team, and would not make the playoffs in most seasons. And I don’t give a bleep about making the playoffs with a team that doesn’t go anywhere in them, and continues to go nowhere the following season.
So I say again, that “One game” argument, regardless of how factual, is apologist talk, not realism.
Alonso would make a throwing error having a self toss.
Mets can have Weaver and Williams. They will probably make them into a starting pitchers as well. The Mets can save Skubal and Skenes for the Yankees.
That’s the way to look at it!
Sadly I do think the Mets have the more desirable pieces to make a trade for one of those guys. A coulple of the young pitchers plus a Nimmo and like a Baty? Yeah that would get it done. Yanks don’t have a Nimmo type they’d want to trade and are tighter with their prospects under Cashman.
Can we get Frazier and Andujar, too?
Now *that’s* funny!
“Can we get Frazier”…They’ll never trade Frazier, he’s got “legendary bat speed.”
the only way mets find trade partner for nimmo is if they take on most of his (bloated) contract.
who the hell is gonna take mcneil or senga at this point? maybe for a 12 pack of coors lite and a prospect in single A.
mets are living in lala land. eat more $, spend more $, finish at .500 again
Astros would happily swap Walker for either Senga or McNeil.
Senna yes but McNeil? I understand you only want Altuve to DH but you should be looking higher than McNeil. That said, should Alonso actually sign elsewhere which I don’t expect, the trade proposal has merit assuming the Mets don’t pivot to the imports. Personally, I think you’re giving up on Walker too soon.
Walker has a higher ceiling but McNeil has the higher floor and is a much better roster fit. I wouldn’t normally be so quick to give up on Walker but the reality of our roster construction is that we have a group with a bad combination of defensive limitations so the guy who’s overpaid and who’s only position is 1B is the one who needs to go. And McNeil plays a solid 2B and a high contact lefty with good plate discipline is exactly what we need in the bottom of our lineup.
@89
you’re living in lala land too
How so?
@ Deweybelongs… Regardless of what you think about Walker’s prospects of a bounceback, the Astros’ payroll reality make trading Walker a very viable consideration for them.
If by “solid” you mean no better than average, then sure, McNeil is solid at second. But his combined OPS+ for the past three years is 101. He still doesn’t strike out much, but his “high contact” during that period has resulted in far, far too many pop outs. Not a good trend going into his age 34 season.
astros wouldnt trade walker for 3 mcneils
let alone 1
not now, not ever
If we’re talking a 1-1 swap with the Mets taking the rest of Walker’s contract, they’d put him on a plane to NY tonight.
That and our roster construction. We simply have no viable long-term way of putting our best 9 on the field at the same time.
“No better than average” is still way better 2B defense than any of our current options, at least among those with a viable major league bat. None of the trends on Walker are good either. It’s a simple matter of the guy we want to get rid of is a better positional fit on your team and the guy you want to get rid of is a better positional fit on our team and we need to clear some payroll so let’s help each other out.
He’s better than average at 2b
Trading Walker for McNeil would slightly upgrade 2B (not many I could say McNeil at second is an upgrade as he’s better in the OF) but defensively who would you put at first who wouldn’t be a big decline from Walker?
Geo but other teams look at last year too and while they will be betting on a rebound, they likely would want cash given McNeil has one year left whereas Walker has too at more bucks per. Imagine Uncke Stevie asking for money (so he could re-buy another gold toilet).
Isaac Paredes, that’s pretty much the whole point.
@noquarter – exactly. And the Mets wouldn’t do it. They’re trying to dump themselves.
Honestly either would be an interesting deal. Probably could get both if there’s a reliever you could send back to the Mets as well.
You don’t want to trade this guy. They need him.
Walker? No they need to clear 1B for Paredes and recoup as much value as they can for Walker.
Injuries happen and why sell low on Walker? It’s only two years and I see a rebound in 26.
Because we have bigger needs and his money is better spent elsewhere. And as it stands we have no clear way of putting our 9 best players on the field at the same time.
Dewey you think a 35-36 year old is going to have a bounce back season? His numbers have been trending downwards every season. The glide path to insustainability is well entrenched. (Except I thought that about George Springer too and he hit a 3-run bomb to send my team packing in a Game 7, so I should be more careful in my pronouncements).
They don’t need him if they get both Tucker and Bellinger. $$$$$$
I’m confused, who are you replying to? Astros aren’t getting Bellinger or Tucker.
Can someone explain why he has a sledgehammer
He wanted to go even harder than the torpedo bat
Yes. Doing renovations at home and picked up the wrong work tool on the way out ?
Trying to get HHH’s attention for the next time WWE is at MSG.
Works for a demolition crew during lockouts? Obviously a foreman with a hard hat like that
Warms up with that bad boy every time. And if there is ever a baseball horror movie crossover he is ready for a starring role.
Ha ha. Ok then. One of those dudes that spurns the weights and lifts homemade buckets of cement instead. I like it !
Turns out Noah Syndergaard was not in fact worthy to wield Mjolnir, but there is another…
“Currently, there’s not a great path to getting Tucker onto the roster, with the Mets having Nimmo and Juan Soto in the corners..”
So Nimmo is stopping the Mets from getting Tucker? What???
I don’t see how that’s true, they have a gaping hole at DH. Could easily rotate them and give each of them 50 or so starts at DH.
You can’t have 3 left handed hitting OF that play everyday and not one that plays CF. It’s really not that hard to understand. You can’t just take the 9 best hitters and say play this position fans just think guys can learn how to play certain positions and the team won’t suffer.
All 3 guys can play both LF and RF, what are you on about? The only difference in skills required between the positions is arm strength. And so what if they’re all left handed? Tucker and Soto especially are among the best left-on-left hitters in baseball history.
You don’t pay Nimmo to be a part time platoon/bench guy. The pieces to the puzzle don’t fit. It’s really simple but you’re struggling badly with this.
They have no DH right now! Nobody in this scenario is a part time platoon/bench guy! I don’t know why you’re struggling with this! They would play a third of their game with Soto at DH and Nimmo and Tucker in the outfield. One third of their games with Tucker at DH and Nimmo and Soto in the outfield. And one third of their games with Nimmo at DH am Tucker and Soto in the outfield. It’s not complicated.
I’m not convinced the Mets aren’t going to lock Alonso. That means the Mets have 3 guys whose best position is DH and makes roster construction a nightmare in 27,28 and beyond.
Well that would probably take them out of the mix on Tucker. They could always trade for Walker instead, unload Senga, McNeil or McNeil on the Astros and then sign Tucker and let Alonso walk.
It’s really puzzling how they spent the most any team has ever spent on payroll last year and ended up with as many holes as they did and missing the playoffs. Lesser gms with cohens money probably try to hot shot more and trade those young arms. Mets have a good farm. That one kid looks nasty how anyone even gets a hit off the sweeper is insane.
The Mets are the epitome of “restless, irritable & discontented”. Nimo is a good ball player and you want to get rid of him? One of the best power hitters in the game, Alonzo, wants to get paid what he’s worth and you whine? Oh but they’ll pay Francisco Lindor $40 million till he’s 80. Let’s not forget they’re paying Soto more than Ohtani is getting paid… enough said.
That’s why you have such a high payroll and didn’t even make the playoffs
Alonzo and Nimo?
Thank you teacher, I’ve always been a week speller
@ SomTeaver, on the topic of spelling, lol
“The Mets are the epitome of “restless, irritable & discontented”
What a bizarre thing to say. AFAIK the New York Mets are not in AA.
Also this is a a truly glib breakdown of the Mets financial state.
Lindor is paid $34.74 until he’s 37, not $40 mil until he’s 80.
Soto is paid more because he’s younger and we’re getting more “prime years”.
Also how hypocritical to criticize the Mets for not “paying one of the best power hitters in the game” … “what he’s worth” and then 1 sentence later whine about paying Soto what he’s worth.
You’re the one whining.
Lol, that’s what we’re here to do my friend! And that’s what you’re doing about me!
Additionally, the sarcasm is clear
Bizarre
“The Mets are the epitome of “restless, irritable & discontented.”
I’m sure it’s a mix-up and tomorrow we’ll see a Gaviscon ad that promises to solve bowels that have a strong chance to contend.
I would be shocked to see the Mets run in back with the same group. Will be interesting to see who stays and who goes and what new players are added.
Nobody, I repeat nobody, will want to trade for Nimmo. Albatross contract the day it was signed. Everyone says Steve Cohen is so smart; I haven’t seen it yet.
Over the past three seasons, Nimmo has averaged 153 games, 3.0 bWAR/3.3 fWAR, 117 wRC+ playing league average defense. That doesn’t register as an albatross contract or even close to one.
So far so good I guess then. But it’s a long contract, with many years to go. I think when he signed it, it was as a center-fielder, then he quickly became not a CF anymore. In fact, I think he played quite a bit of DH last season. If his future is as a DH, not good.
He DH’ed in 4 games out of 155. Obviously, the drop-off in defense is not ideal but he’s not a liability in LF (-1 OAA, +4 DRS).
None of those things are relevant if he’s got a bad contract going forward and presumably past his prime. I don’t know his contract details going forward but what someone did 3 years ago doesn’t matter next year.
It’s a reasonable AAV but yeah the length is just insanity. I’m still laughing at them for doing it.
Hooray! Trade him.
Package him for Brandon Woodruff. Let’s get Tucker. Give Benge Mauricio Acuna Jett every opportunity in the spring.
Woodruff accepted the QO, he can’t be traded till June. Also of all team the Brewers would never take Nimmo’s contract.
Absolutely zero reason to think any of those four young players is ready to be major league starter by opening day. Where, when, and how they work their way onto the roster and/or into the lineup is a question mark. And whether or not they will succeed right away or need to go back to the minors a few times is guesswork as well.
How many trips did Baty need? Vientos? Acuna is out of options and still hasn’t stuck. Even Alvarez, who did stick from the start has had ups and downs in his performance and needed to be optioned last year.
When will giddy fanboys learn that a) these players do not walk on water and only the very elite just waltz into a starting job and succeeds enough to hold it, and b) the NY press inflates these prospects’ readiness to the point of gaslighting you.
That’s not the entire story, though.
Benge for example has a .389 OBP in the minors, and by credible accounts is an above average CFer. He doesn’t have to be particularly good in MLB in 2026 to be the smartest option available to the Mets, since defense and OBP are more resistant to extended slumps than other skills.
Nimmo’s 295 PA in 2016-2017 are one of numerous precedents for the kind of performance we can expect from this kind of player, from Benge in 2026.
Other people also routinely make the mistake of looking at a free agent’s projections in the context of their salary. That’s always wrong. The real context is the team’s alternatives.
Even if you do Benge the mild disservice of projecting him to put up 1.5 fWAR in 500 PA (pro rating FGDC’s projection but without the add’l PT benefit), that’s 1.5 fWAR for $800k, which in turn leaves millions and quite possibly tens of millions in salary to be spent elsewhere on the roster.
Benge may not project to 2 wins if given 500 PA in CF in 2026, but he may well be, by far, the Mets best choice in CF in 2026.
Good. Trade him and then ask questions later…
Maybe they couldn’t find Nimmo.
If Nimmo doesn’t accept a trade the Mets have ready,they should move him to DH once Benge and Ewing are ready.
Agree Nimmo needs to DH more. But Ewing is more than a year away and doesn’t belong on the conversation at this point, and when Benge is ready he will likely go to CF, so that doesn’t really push Nimmo anywhere.
I hope Brandon can stay with the Mets. seeing a player stick to a team makes me happy.
Nimmo is not the problem. There is no reason to move him. After Alonso is gone, Nimmo can split time between left and DH. Nimmo isn’t the cleanup batter, yet he hit over 20 home runs, drove in over 90 and scored over 80 runs. Nimmo can also run the bases and steal a base. Nimmo wasn’t the guy who injured Senga, who was leading the league in ERA, by Alonso’s inability to do routing toss to first. Nimmo is the type of human that a team can market. The Mets need to add by subtraction and that is to let an obese, player, who has no range, ,no arm and can’t run the bases go. In the 129 games Alonso didn’t hit a home run, he batted around .230 with 46 RBI’s. That’s 129 games. These are not the numbers of a cleanup batter. Alonso did most of his damage in 33 games,a quarter of which, were won by 5 or more runs. Brandon Nimmo comes into spring training in tip top shape. Alonso spends his off season hunting and eating like an offensive lineman. Pete Alonso is a weaker hitting Greg Luzinski. Lastly, everyone seem to love calling Cohen “Uncle Steve”, like he is going to listen to the fan fantasies. Cohen hired Stearns to be responsible with money and to build a top minor-league system. Now, that the Mets are a top three farm system, they are not going to trade top prospects for a one year Boras rental and they are not going to give an Anthony Rendon type deal to an obese, aging, one dimensional slugger. Some of you guys are throwing out insane contracts, like 7 years at $35-$40 million a year. You guys are delusional.
I love the constant Andujar and Frazier jokes it never gets old. Let’s trade Dominez and Jones now before they become the new Frazier and Andujar. Go get Kwan!!!!
@Harry Lime Naylor’s contract also shows how limited the market for Alonso SHOULD be.
Naylor iirc put up 8.1 fWAR for 2023-2025 compared to Alonso’s 8.5 fWAR. For 2025 it was 3.1 fWAR for Naylor, and 3.4 fWAR for Alonso.
In the overall they were almost the same player over the time period projection systems care about. What Alonso did in 2019, for example, is completely irrelevant to what he’ll do in 2026, 2027, 2028….
Naylor’s more than two-and-a half years younger than Alonso, and got a 5-year deal. On that basis you’d want to give Alonso, at most, 3 years to Naylor’s 5. As for AAV, there’s also no reason to pay Alonso more than very fractionally more than the $18.5 Naylor got.
Call it 3/60m for Alonso, who is a DH at this point in his career, though 3/51m is more consistent with his projectable value.
Consider, too, that from May 6th to the end of the year Alonso hit just .253/311/485. That’s an empty performance from a 20m player with no defensive value whatever. He had a very lucky April 2025 with a .371 BABIP compared to a .270 BABIP for his career. Who in their right mind gives Alonso something absurd like 7/200m because of his lucky first five weeks in 2025?
In Alonso you have a completely delusional player with no sense at all of his value, who is only grudgingly conceding to do a little DH’ing and is looking for 7 years. In fact he’s a 2-3 win DH who has a much better chance of being in the minors in 2029 or out of the game entirely, than he does having a healthy, ongoing career.
Spot on. In April, Alonso was following Soto’s hitting style and that is to take more pitchers and be selective. At one point, Alonso was on his way to a 100 walks season and he was hitting over .300. The only problem for Pete was he wasn’t hitting home runs, so he went back to chasing pitches. On top of Alonso’s in consistencies, he was a cancer in the clubhouse. I’m sure Mendoza wanted to rest Pete and play him at DH for some games, but Alonso didn’t want to. The fact Mendoza came back is proof that the Mets had an Alonso problem. Pete wasn’t in shape to play every day and it showed.
Now we discover that Alonso was a cancer in the clubhouse? Sorry sir, that’s ridiculous. Oh, I forgot you were in the clubhouse yourself and saw with your own eyes how Alonso killed team morale.
You don’t have to be in the clubhouse to see the signs. All the players who were benched, sent down or released for not producing had to watch Alonso bat .178, 28-156, with 5 homers and 18 RBI’s from June 10th to the end of July and see him in the lineup each game.. When there are two sets of rules at a workplace, you will end up with a toxic work environment. Alonso, who is obese, has no range, speed or arm, insisted on playing every inning of every game. He is not good enough to do this, so it’s easy to ascertain that Alonso was a diva.
You’ve gotten to be a comedian. Keep it coming. Does Pete Alonso also mistreat animals?
Alonso is a phony. Yes, he hunts animals. This is why he is obese. Instead of working out and losing 25 pounds to be a better defender, Alonso his wheaten his cowboy hat and hanging in the woods.
Tell us more. What about his automobile irks you? How often does he speak to his parents on the phone?
Definitely want Diaz back before Alonso if it were one or the other.
But I can see Alonso going through the same thing as last year and reluctantly taking three years and so maybe that may as well be with the Metropolitans.
Someone has some loose lips in the Mets front office. Operation Moledown has been activated.
Mets know that they have to address pitching. Regardless if they made the playoffs or not, its a pitcher’s game with timely hitting. Every series that was competitive, was a pitching match-up. I think they picked up on that, hopefully. (Crosses fingers)
Mets MLB SP as of Opening Day:
McLean
TOR–in trade or FA
Holmes
Peterson
Solid 4th / 5th starter–in trade or FA
Senga / Manaea
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Syracuse AAA as of Opening Day:
Sproat
Tong
—That means they’ll need two starting pitchers in free agency or trade, both of whom need to have a real track record of durability. Holmes and Peterson aren’t likely to pitch more than 2/3 of a season, if that, and I wouldn’t be surprised if between them they only pitched 180 innings combined after both were pushed in 2025 to pitch far more innings than they ever had before. That often takes a serious toll, so the Mets can’t skimp on their two new acquisitions.
I’d also expect Senga and Manaea to combine to form one competent pitcher in 2026, but no more than that. They’ll be 33 and 34 in 2026, both have been injured, and Manaea in particular was extremely lucky in the last 1/3 of 2024, making him a 4.00 ERA pitcher when he was two years younger.
The Mets can figure one of Sproat and Tong to be healthy and reasonably effective in MLB in the latter half of 2026. That’s actually a useful projection, if correct, since both of Holmes and Peterson, even if they’re healthy and effective for the first half of 2026, don’t rate to be so in the second half.
Among the problems the Mets will face is, who’s the backup starter who can fill in if they don’t have a healthy five (let along six) in the first half of the season?
They’re going to need to trade for at least one Griffin Canning-type, or they’ll end up hoping Sproat can handle being rushed, and will put up a sub-5.00 ERA while he’s learning at the MLB level.
Pretty dumb to trade Nimmo before ABS becomes a part of the game. With ABS i can easily see Nimmo reverting back to a .400 OBS guy.
So Nimmo’s OBP plummeted from .400 (which it hadn’t been since 2021) to .327 in 2024 and .324 in 2025 because… umpires, collectively, were mean to him?
No, his power numbers increased. If you are a Mets fan they consistently mentioned that the coaching staff wanted him to change his approach from walking a ton to trying to be more of a power guy/contact hitter. Idk what the plan is but with ABS I think he can easily return to a 400 obp guy–if needed.
The Mets biggest need is obvious to me: Guys who can beat the Nationals and the Marlins. Doesn’t matter what position or what their stats are. Simply put the team plays like crap against those two clubs and they have to face them 26 times.
Surely there is some bench guy somewhere who clobbers the Marlins and the Mets could get for nothing.
It sounds like you haven’t followed the Mets very much. Baty has won the starting 3b job. Have you heard?
So this was a lie