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The trade deadline is a little over a week away. Let’s round up the latest Mets trade front news.
Juan Soto
On Sunday, the New York Post polled a plethora of league executives and asked where Juan Soto could land. The heavy favorite answer was the St. Louis Cardinals.
C.J. Cron
The Mets looked into Colorado’s C.J. Cron, a right-handed batting first baseman, says SNY. Cron does not have the righty/lefty splits that Daniel Vogelbach has but he runs a risk of playing poorly outside of Coors Field.
At home Cron is batting .352/.393/.674 with 16 home runs and 53 RBI.
On the road he’s batting .229/.296/.399 with 5 home runs and 16 RBI.
Josh Bell
The Mets are one of several teams that have made a trade offer for Josh Bell of the Washington Nationals. Reportedly the offer was the Mets sending an upper-level minor league starting pitcher and outfielder in exchange for Bell and a big-league reliever.
Trey Mancini
New York continues to scout Trey Mancini of the Baltimore Orioles says SNY. One of the top rental power bats on the market, Mancini owns a slash line of .268/.345/.404 this season.
J.D. Martinez
The Mets are monitoring the availability of J.D. Martinez at the deadline. Due to their recent play, the Red Sox could be sellers by next week. Martinez is hitting .302/.368/.481 with nine home runs and 38 RBI. He’s a rental bat with his contract expiring at the end of the season.
David Robertson
Cubs reliever David Robertson hasn’t been officially sourced as a target for the Mets but the addition makes sense. Now 37, Robertson has pitched in New York with success in the past and has the drive to win.
Robertson called Mets general manager Billy Eppler “a friend of mine.” Eppler was an executive with the Yankees during his first stint in the Bronx.
“I’m just going to come in there and do the best I can,” he told Newsday. “You’re going to win some, you’re going to lose some, you’re going to go out there and absolutely suck. And when that happens you just gotta own up to it. It happens. It’s not for a lack of effort, that’s for sure. No matter where I’m at, I’m always giving it everything I’ve got trying to get the job done.”
Dominic Smith
The Red Sox have checked in on the Mets first baseman. Smith is currently on the 10-day injured list and will not improve his trade value before next weeks deadline. Smith has not hit a home run in a full calendar year and the Mets have been looking to move on from him since the Spring.
