Mets' Youthful Approach to Trade Deadline
What are my choices? Choices already? Already, the Mets are ready. They’re top of mind for David Robertson walked out the door and then Max Keppler said, I need to talk to the front office and then he never had that conversation. That conversation never happened. It didn’t happen before he went. Well, I mean, I think, I think he didn’t have a conversation. They probably gave him strong idea of where they are tilting over the next year or two. Verlander said he would like to have the same conversation. Lauren. I look, I think that the, and then
Billy Kepler came out yesterday and said something interesting. I think it kind of flew under the radar a little. He said, I don’t think we’ll have the same odds to make the playoffs in 2024 that we had going into 2023. I don’t think that means a rebuild. I think it means that they’re not, I think they’re gonna keep it limited too. What kind of stuff they do in the off season, they’ll put a good team in the field. But everything we’ve seen that they’ve done since the trade of David Robertson, the amount of money, Steve
Cohen was willing to eat on max the amount he would have to eat to make Verlander be able to go out the door. If that happens before 6 p.m. tomorrow, he’s just
Series now as many good prospects as possible into their organization. The percent chance Justin Verlander walks out the door by four tomorrow, think decent, I mean, hate play in this game, but it’s a 60 40 because I think that the owner has like, like even if U say Justin Verlander isn’t Justin Verlander anymore. It 40 he hasn’t what he was at 39. He won the Cy Young award last year. He’s been really good now, like the, the top level numbers for about a month and a half. He’s pitched very, very well, including yesterday against Washington.
But I think sum teams out their are really concerned about the falling, you know, his 40 years old, there are real precipitous drop in strikeouts percentage over the years. Uh like this, we’ll show it just on his fastball. Like you could see that shrinking numbers. You, no. Keep in mind he didn’t really pitching 2020 2020 2020 because of Tommy John surgery. But I’ll just give you this quick in 2019 among qualified starters. He was second in strikeouts percentage last year. He was 10th this year. He’s 56. So I think that there’s teams out there, like,
are we buying a falling star? I still think it’s Justin Verlander. I still think he’s uh you know, like somebody who helps a lot of teams and I think this owner is willing to put, takes the money to make it possible for him to go as long as he gets what he wants in return, which is at least won high level prospect if not to is their a frontrunner to land him. I mean, a frontrunner. I again, I think at some price, almost any contender, the Dodgers are definitely talking and I think you could see
why they are right now trying to get by with three rookies in their rotation. Uh You know, she on Grove and Miller. Uh and look, these were the additions in the last week. Their goal this week was to get more right handed versatile Bats. Rosario and Hernandez was to add two there bullpen Joe Kelly and was to get a starter who at least raised the the floor like Theno Lance Lynn doesn’t rays the ceiling, but they feel with their analytic guys that there’s some underlying numbers there that, that isn’t going to be a 6 47
a with them, that he raises the floor helps until Clayton Kershaw comes back. But even when Kershaw’s back, kind of Kershaw, Ur-as Gonsolin Lynn Verlander pitches a playoff game for them. And so at the right price money and the right price prospects, I think that they’re the team to watch. You said with the Mets that they want this young crop of Jung talented players that are going to be good for decades, essentially want what’s happening in Baltimore. The Yankees want the similar thing, how much of their plans now are to help them this year as
opposed to look into the future. Now, next year and beyond look, I think the Yankees have come to an appreciation that they have a shot to make the playoffs this year, but that this is not a very good team in the ilk of what we expect out of the Yankees year to year. This team, to me, looks very much like these team’s up here. I would scratch the 14 team. They were never see telling in 14. That was Derrick Jeter announced his retirement before the season. Haus Steinbrenner was not going to allow a sale right
in 2013, Brian Cashman wanted to cell Robinson Cano, they wouldn’t let him was very kind of a similar to where they are now in 2016. They let him trade Chapman and Miller now. Well, I think if they went out of this market with, with clay homes and Michael King, they could make a killing. Could they do Chapman Miller? I mean, historically Chapman Miller turned out to be a Gleyber Torres for them and nothing really else. I don’t think they’ll do that. But Lauren, I think that all of there trades significant. If they make a significant
trade , it will be a player with controlled beyond 2023. They have to think about fixing their 2024. They got to get Moore athletic deeper, more left handed, better batting average, a lot of stuff. And I think they gotta finally fixed left field, which they haven’t or a third base long term. And I think that’s where they are like, it’s got to be players that help him beyond. This is interesting because we’ve said for the longest time , they can’t sell two big there in New York. But now we are seeing what’s happening in Flushing
Queens and they’re selling, that’s, that’s one of the nonsense thing. I would love the idea that you cant rebuild in New York. Of course, you can rebuild in New York. The Knicks have been terrible for what? 30 like and they will bring 18,000 people to the garden all the time. I think the Mets are being a honest to their families. Just be honest, tell them what you’re trying to do. The people who don’t like it, they’re gonna call talked radio anyway. So you can go onto the internet , just ignore them.
