Yankees Want Matz?

[Edgy MD]

The New York Post (Puma and Davidoff playing tag-team) reports that The New York Yankees have expressed interest in Mets lefthander Steven Matz. While the Mets have more rotation depth than the Yankees, that's the sort of thing that can go to shit overnight, so it's a place most teams want to be very careful about trading from.



The Mets have no outright holes in the lineup right now, so there are no obvious matches, but obviously no place is beyond upgrading. Gary Sanchez could work, or maybe they mostly need some future considerations. Alternatively, they could rope in a third team so whichever player(s) the Mets get back won't arrive with all those pompous, sycophantic, unctuous, oleaginous, and obsequious Yankee qualities.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm not so sure that the Mets have enough depth to consider trading Matz. They're only one or two injuries away from having to turn to Walker Lockett.

[Vic Sage]

Edgy, breakin' out the thesaurus!



We don't have a pitching surplus, or a dearth of LF/3bmen, so they'd need to send us someone good, and someone other than Andujar.

And they'd need to take Cano back!

[Ceetar]

Whoever writes the most click-baity Mets-Yankees trade every spring is "first in line" for the next national coverage job/raise that opens up.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Edge is quoting the Times obit on Bill Curtis.



Normally I'm a big fan of trading Matz but that was before we let Wheeler walk and when his imagined destination wasn't the Bronx.



It would be cool if we could hold them over a barrel and all but don't see it--yet.



Perhaps we could interest them in Walker Lockett

[G-Fafif]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Edge is quoting the Times obit on Bill Curtis.

James Lipton is insulted. So is Bill Kurtis.

[Edgy MD]

I liked that string of adjectives, because it exactly gave the flavor of an interview with Lipton, which was often an exercise in vocabulary expansion and gently anti-populist pronunciation choices. That's some good obitting.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Edge is quoting the Times obit on Bill Curtis. James Lipton is insulted. So is Bill Kurtis.

doh.

[Lefty Specialist]

F the Yankees.

[Centerfield]

I kinda think we need more starting pitching, not less.



If we're going to trade with the Yankees, let's give them Cano.

[Guest 41Forever]

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I kinda think we need more starting pitching, not less.



If we're going to trade with the Yankees, let's give them Cano.

[Edgy MD]

But enough about Michael Cuddyer.

[smg58]

I hadn't realized we had five better starting pitchers than Matz. Three, yes. But he had a better ERA+ than Wacha and Porcello last season, despite an off year. Plus a real baseball would help him a lot.



I'm not sure what the Yankees would consider trading that we could use, outside of relief pitching. But I wouldn't trade a starter for a reliever unless there was a huge quality difference or we were getting multiple decent ones.

[Edgy MD]

Well, I hate trades, but the logic goes that you don't always trade a guy only if you've got better players available at his position. Sometimes you make the trade because you think you'll improve in one area more than you'll regress in another.

[metsmarathon]

i wouldn't mind getting deivi garcia back. we might be more tolerant of the growing pains and uncertainties, whereas the yanks might prefer the somewhat more predictable matz. not that matz is predicatble at all, but he at least has a major league pedigree of a sort.

[Edgy MD]

The Mets can corner the market on undersized righthanders!

[Centerfield]

I like JCL's idea. Give them Walker Lockett.