BIG Trade!!!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Mets trade for "a catcher" from the Orioles, send P prospect Kevin Smith, per radio guys, probably reading twitter

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Robinson Chirinos, who's on the Rangers, is the guy acquired.



Kevin Smith to the O's apparently a second deal or a 3-way we don;t have the details from yet.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

36 year old .236 career hitter, so you know it's impactful.

[Edgy MD]

Kevin Smith hasn't done anything this season.

[bmfc1]

Todd could have been signed as a FA, Chirinos is hitting .119.

Castro, the reliever from BAL might be help the bullpen but anyone could:

https://www.rotoworld.com/baseball/mlb/player/20378/miguel-castro/statshttps://www.rotoworld.com/baseball/mlb/player/20378/miguel-castro/stats

[Benjamin Grimm]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: 36 year old .236 career hitter, so you know it's impactful.

I hope the JT Realmuto buzz is real (or, perhaps, muto), and that he's the Mets catcher in April.



If there is an April, that is.

[kcmets]

Todd Frazier's backtoo.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Why Frazier? Is JD Davis hurt more than we first thought?

[Edgy MD]

Maybe. Maybe the imbalance of lefties and righties was seen as a problem.



My feeling is that when you have a chance to get a Todd, that's a deal you've got to make.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Maybe. Maybe the imbalance of lefties and righties was seen as a problem. My feeling is that when you have a chance to get a Todd, that's a deal you've got to make.

I wonder what Jackson Todd is doing these days?

Later

[Edgy MD]

I joke about Smith, but I liked him. If there was a lefthanded Jacob deGrom in the Mets system, Smith was it.



I mean, big if, sure. I get that.

[MFS62]

We got cash in the Frazier deal.

Cash will be the closer for night's game.

I had the same impression about Smith

Later

[LWFS]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Why Frazier? Is JD Davis hurt more than we first thought?

At the very least, this ups our Jersey swagger quotient, assuming that's at all desirable. Porcello's from Jersey, too, but he's not exactly OF Jersey, y'know?

[ashie62]

Porcello is from Morristown NJ and went Seton Hall Prep in West Orange where he earned an offer from UNC but turned pro instead.



Frazier we all know about



Expecting J.D. Davis to hit the I.L. I guess

[LWFS]

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Porcello is from Morristown NJ and went Seton Hall Prep in West Orange where he earned an offer from UNC but turned pro instead.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Far as I can tell the Mets picked up three shitty players, all of whom might still be around next year, for a decent prospect, which I guess makes sense were the goal to lean into shitty.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Far as I can tell the Mets picked up three shitty players, all of whom might still be around next year, for a decent prospect, which I guess makes sense were the goal to lean into shitty.

These moves are a variation on getting Wacha and Porcello which were variations on Cuddyer which was a variation on the same half-assed half-measured Wilponian modus operandi dumpster diving deadbeat moves that are to be expected. A real big market team that plays in New York would've competed for Gerrit Cole and never have let Zack Wheeler, who's one of this year's ten best pitchers in the NL, ever get away.



The only thing that's stopped me from bitching is that this whole effin' season's one big joke. Thank god the Mets have a pitcher in his prime who's pitching like Sandy Koufax to watch every few days. Pete Alonso is starting to remind me of Joe Charboneau.



Steve Cohen can't get here fast enough.

[nymr83]

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Steve Cohen can't get here fast enough.

[Edgy MD]

I'm not about Miguel Castro as a Gerritt Cole booby prize.



Whatever he is, the only thing worth comparing him to is whatever the Orioles get out of Smith and PtBNL.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Maybe with real ownership, the Mets sign Wheeler and Stroman, rendering moot, Wacha and Porcello and today's trade. We trade a top prospect for a guy that, in baseball years, is practically AARP eligible, not because of rational, well thought-out decision making, but because our dirtbag owners, knowing that their days are numbered and that they're on the way out, make an emotionally ill-advised last mad dash for baseball glory.

[Edgy MD]

That's A scenario.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Yeah I suppose they like what they see in Castro who's relatively young and has some ability but a spotty track record and an aggressively sideways cap.



Frazier, as relayed here a million times already is the kind of player I find aesthetically displeasing, with that ugly, leaning over one-handed swing, frequent whiffs and baggy-ass pants. He is a good third baseman but it's all a kind of compromise as he's an old, less exciting version of Davis if a nominal power upgrade on the Gimenez/Guillermo temporary solution. But geez, do we want to go the world series with Todd Frazier?