According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, the New York Mets are “still pursuing” 27-year-old catcher J.T. Realmuto, and it appears as if the Miami Marlins have set their price tag on the talented backstop quite high.

With the potential three-way deal between the Mets, Marlins, and Yankees having lost steam Puma reports that the “Marlins want [Amed Rosario] and another player — [Brandon Nimmo] is the most likely candidate — for a deal”.

Rosario, 23, came through the Mets organization as a highly-touted prospect after signing with the team as a 17-year-old in 2012, eventually making his MLB debut in August 2017.

In 200 career games (762 plate appearances), the Dominican native has a .255/.290/.384 slash line with 13 homers, 51 runs batted in, and an 87 OPS+ rating.

Despite hitting a number of rough patches over his first season-plus in Queens, Rosario seemed to hit his stride at the plate toward the end of last season. From August 1 through the end of the year (239 plate appearances), the 23-year-old slashed .284/.318/.413 with a .335 BABIP, five homers, two triples, and 10 doubles.

Nimmo, 25, was the Mets’ first-round draft pick in 2011 (13th overall) out of Cheyenne, WY. In 101 games between his debut in 2016 and the end of the 2017 season, Nimmo hit .264/.367/.392 with 12 doubles, a triple, six homers, and 27 RBI.

Last season, the Wyomingian broke out in a very big way. Over the course of 140 games (535 plate appearances), Nimmo slashed .263/.404/.483 with 17 home runs, 47 RBI, 28 doubles, and a team-leading eight triples.

The 150 OPS+ rating he posted bested his 2017 mark (115) by 35. His advanced stats were through the roof (.385 weighted on-base average, fourth in NL; 149 weighted runs created plus rating, second in NL; 4.5 fWAR, 12th in NL), though his strikeouts are still a bit of an issue (he struck out in 26.2 percent of his at-bats last season; 26.5 percent career mark).

Realmuto, 27, is a terrific player and fits the needs of the New York Mets to a tee, but a sacrifice of this magnitude would contradict general manager Brodie Van Wagenen’s comments from the Winter Meetings on Monday evening.

“The way I look at any trade, we want the trade to make us better; we don’t want to create a hole that we didn’t have by filling a hole that we did have,” Van Wagenen said. “We want to make sure if we do make moves, we’re adding to our strengths and filling the gaps where we need the help.”

With other, more than viable backstop options available through free agency (Yasmani Grandal, Wilson Ramos, to name a couple), giving up Rosario and Nimmo seems like an awfully steep — and borderline unnecessary — price to pay for Realmuto.