According to a report in the New York Post, the Mets were waiting to see if the Red Sox would dangle shortstop prospect Xander Bogaerts and were monitoring the situation closely.
“It’s not like we’re knocking down their door to see if Bogaerts is available,” the source said. “But we’ll wait and see how things shake out.”
However, Jayson Stark of ESPN reports that a few teams that have checked in with the Red Sox were told there’s no interest in dealing Bogaerts.
The Red Sox plan to shift newly signed Hanley Ramirez to left field, and with Pablo Sandoval at third, Bogaerts will remain at short.
Bogaerts, now 22, batted .240 last season for the Red Sox with 12 home runs and 46 RBI in 538 at-bats. However, he is considered baseball’s top shortstop prospect and Baseball America, MLB, and Baseball Prospectus all ranked him as the No. 2 overall prospect in the game in 2014.
Joel Sherman sais that Bogaerts would have likely cost the Mets either Jacob deGrom or Zack Wheeler at minimum.
Honestly, there’s no way I’d trade deGrom or even Wheeler for what is essentially an unproven prospect, I don’t care how high he’s ranked.
(Updated 12/5)
