Mets Hold on to Wheeler as Trade Deadline Passed - By Tony Plate

                                               

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The New York Mets held on to Zack Wheeler, Noah Syndergaard and Todd Frazier, much to the surprise of some of the baseball followers here, since Wheeler and Frazier will become free agents at the end of the season. 

If they leave the team after the season is over the Mets will receive draft picks. There were rumors long before the trade deadline expired that the three would be dealt.

They say that some of the best trades are the ones that you do not make. The front office figured that it was in the best interest of the team to hold on to the players since they were within reasonable striking distance of the final wildcard playoff spot. 

This decision has paid off for the Mets who have played much better since the All-Star break. The Mets have taken advantage with the soft part of their schedule against teams with mediocre records, however their play still has been impressive. 

They have been sizzling and have won eleven of twelve games after last night’s doubleheader victory over the Miami Marlins and are back in the wildcard race.

The New York Yankees were one of the teams rumored to be interested in Zack Wheeler or Noah Syndergaard. The Yankees have been trying to obtain Noah since the Winter.  

Both teams should do business with each other more often, but the Mets have been known throughout the years to not want to help the Yankees. This should not occur, because in my opinion it is not right. 

The two Ohio teams, the Indians and the Reds made a big trade and the Reds helped the Indians by trading power hitters Yasiel Puig and Franmil Reyes to them for Trevor Bauer, which is what the Indians needed. 

There are many New York sports fans that cheer for both teams, and it is frustrating for the fans that a trade was not made between the two teams since the rumor of a trade between the two teams was floating around.

The Mets have the starting pitching the Yanks need and the Yanks have the position players and prospects the Mets need. If they did business more often both teams would perhaps meet in the World Series. 

Since the Mets said they would have traded Noah only if they were overwhelmed,the Yankees should have attempted to trade Andujar, Tarpley, plus Florial and Garcia, which are the Yanks top rated prospects, for Noah and prospect Dave Peterson. 

I think that would have satisfied the Mets front office and would have helped them in the long-term and perhaps the Yankees would have been able to get by the Houston Astros and make it to the World Series.