The Mets aren’t sellers just yet, but their spiraling season still has the potential to place the club in that category.
on Friday for two minor league pitchers was more of an opportunity deal for the Mets than the beginning of a long sell-off.
The Mets entered their game Saturday against the Phillies with a 34-41 record and a season-worst seven games below .500“Usually that is what happens: If you don’t play well, people lose jobs,” Francisco Lindor said. “But I don’t see us as a team that is going to sell off. I see us as a team that is going to contend, that is going to be there. We are built to be contenders. We are not playing like it right now, but we’re built for it.
But Cohen showed a willingness to eat dollars in the Escobar trade , which allowed the Mets to receive better prospects in return than they would have otherwise.The Mets would probably have to swallow almost all of his remaining salary to deal him. A steady performer in the final season of a two-year contract worth $26.5 million that contains a club option for next year.
The Mets then might be content rotating Mauricio and Jeff McNeil between second base and left field with perhaps Mark Vientos as the DH. Nobody understands the drill better than the veteran reliever, who was acquired by the Phillies at the trade deadline last year and pitched for them in the World Series.
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