smg58 wrote: 30 HR and 100 RBI should mean that Bruce can afford to pass on a qualifying offer, and the draft pick would be worth more than anything he could get us back in August. And if he comes back that's OK too. So there's no point in dealing him right now. And then the team may get a redux of the Walker situation. A player who isn't part of the plan accepting the offer, not having a position, and taking up a big chunk of the salary. Or alternatively, they carry him for the rest of the season, let him take at-bats from young players, he gets the offer, he rejects it, and the Mets get a pick between rounds two and three, the upside is two more months of burying their real centerfielders in exchange for ad second/third sandwich draft pick, and again, the risk of the former situation, that he accepts it. Neither situation is a disaster, but neither is ideal. I understand why the team may still be looking to trade.