Cano-Diaz Poll: Record Your Real Time Reaction NOW!!!!

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Remember the Trade in Tomorrow for Today Society (TiTTS). This has more of a Trade in Tomorrow for Yesterday feel.

[TransMonk]

Mets Willets Point wrote: Remember the Trade in Tomorrow for Today Society (TiTTS). This has more of a Trade in Tomorrow for Yesterday feel.

BOC

[Frayed Knot]

The more I think about this, the weirder the trade seems to be with the 89-win team being the one dealing away essentially their top hitter (and paying part of the fare) along with the league's top closer while
the 77 win team takes on money and an older player while dealing away prospects. Oddly, though, the Mets had the slightly better run differential (-31 vs -34) in 2018 -- or maybe 'less worse' is
the better way to put it. Pythag theory says Both teams should have wound up with identical 77-85 records.

The other thing is that Kelenic was dealt so quickly (obviously that 'one year' rule no longer exists) that we never even got a sense of who he is or what he might be. We essentially know little more now
than we did after reading the thumbnail sketches we usually makes jokes about during draft time. So while I certainly dislike the idea of dealing away not just a 1st round draft pick but a Top-10
overall guy, his career or lack of one is so vague right now and so far off in the future (would be a bit different were he a college pick) that these feelings are more or less just theoretical.

In the end it IS likely to make us a better team next season figuring on Cano > Bruce and Diaz > Swarzak
The problem of course comes in the future if/when Cano is old and expensive while Dunn is contributing in some capacity and Kelenic is all young and RoY-ish
And almost the bigger concern is the part where this smells of a SPLASH move rather than a piece of a plan move, as in: Don't just stand there, DO SOMETHIING!!, which, by itself isn't the worst
thing in the world, but what comes after that something?


In the end I guess I'll go with 'Kinda' don't like it although the variables here could fly from one extreme to the other plus anywhere in between.

[Edgy MD]

Jerry DiPoto is claiming that the Mariners had Kelenic down as their highest rated player in last year's draft.

[Frayed Knot]

And while that may actually be accurate, I tend to be more than a bit leery of those types of after-the-fact claims.

[Guest 41Forever]

Frayed Knot wrote: And while that may actually be accurate, I tend to be more than a bit leery of those types of after-the-fact claims.

He's trying to sell the trade of his top closer to his fans. I get that.