Take off, Houser!

[A Boy Named Seo]

Mets make a trade with the Brewers! --> https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/12/mets-to-acquire-adrian-houser-tyrone-taylor-from-brewers.htmlhttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/12/mets-to-acquire-adrian-houser-tyrone-taylor-from-brewers.html



In: RHP Adrian Houser and outfielder Tyrone Taylor, the former filling a rotation need and the latter is that good glove outfielder they've been looking for.



Out: minor league RHP Coleman Crow, one of the dudes we got for Escobar.



Discuss.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Mets get arb-eligible Brewers Adrian Houser and Tyrone Taylor for Coleman Crow, the drive-time DJ received as part of the Eduardo Escobar trade.



Houser is a 30-year-old RHP No. 4 starter type who went 8-5, 4.12 last year.



Taylor is a RH hitting reserve outfielder with power.



Crow made a few starts for Bingo then had Tommy John surgery so won't pitch at all this year.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

oh you beat me. Merge those threads!

[Edgy MD]

Clearly the Mets hate Crows. Coleman leaves the system having never appeared for a Mets affiliate. Pete Crow-Armstrong got to at-least tear it up for six games with St. Lucie before he got moved.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I don't know what kind of raises the new guys are gonna get, but it seems like the Mets did pretty decent here? And STOINS obviously knows all there is to know about these dudes.



Edit: MLBTR updated their post and projects Houser to get $5.6M and Taylor $1.7M so I guess a little cheaper than your average free agent bro.

[Edgy MD]

Houser currently slots in as the Mets #3 starter, knocking Tylor Megill out of the picture for now. You could see that as pretty good news if you feared for the depth of the Mets rotation, but you could see it as bad news maybe if you were hoping for better news. News can be like that.



His nickname is Doogie.

[metirish]

[Edgy MD]

Good to see Scott's not a bitter man. He has some reason to be.



Worth noting, of course, that a lot of water's gone over the dam since pre-2021.



OE: Also kind of worth noting that the Brewers PoBO at the time was David Stearns.

[Frayed Knot]

I feel like this trade is just the Mets pulling the wool over my eyes.





SC = High

[MFS62]

Nice thread title, eh?

Later

[ashie62]

Frayed Knot wrote: I feel like this trade is just the Mets pulling the wool over my eyes. SC = High

This



Houser wasn't really a passable back of rotation starter for Milwaukee



I don't believe that changes here

[Edgy MD]

I think we can be assured by the high sarcasm content that Frayed Knot was not serious as to the wool and his eyes.



As for Houser, he's started 97 games for a team that's pretty much been the class of their division over the last seven years. He must've been found passable at something along the way.

[Frayed Knot]

Houser, 30 y/o (31 in February) has had a better than average ERA in three of the last five seasons [2019, '21, '23]

and below average in the other two ['20 and '22]

His K/9 are low [7.3] but so are his HR/9 [0.9] and he's got a career average ERA+ over 100 [106]

That's not failed fifth starter material.

[nymr83]

Plans A, B, C & D seem to end up on the DL most years. You can do a lot worse than to acquire a guy capable of going out there and throw up a league-average ERA in exchange for an injured minor leaguer. Houser isn't the exciting acquisition, he is the guy you are excited is there when Severino is back on the DL April 10th.



He was probably only available because his arbitration salary actually matters to a club like Milwaukee, while Steve Cohen will pay him out of his piggy bank.

[ashie62]

I hope you all are right. I really do



I was more responding to him as a #3