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What if Robinson Cano opts out of the 2020 season?

by Brian Joura  

Recently, Robinson Cano has been missing from camp for an undisclosed reason. Now, it’s possible by the time you read this that Cano has returned and everything is a-ok. But as it’s 2020 and nothing seems to go as one might expect, there’s the possibility that things are less than rosy. What follows is purely a theoretical exercise. What would the Mets do if Cano was to follow the lead of other veterans like Ian Desmond, Buster Posey and Ryan Zimmerman and opt out of the 2020 season?

Right now, Cano is set to be the team’s starting second baseman and it’s likely he would see some time at DH, too. Health permitting, Cano figured to get in the neighborhood of 55 starts and despite what you may think of his being on the team at all, it would create problems trying to replace that many starts at the drop of the hat.

The good news is that because of their depth, the Mets would have multiple options on how they would go about replacing him. The biggest wildcard would be the health of Jed Lowrie. If Lowrie was ready to go, the Mets could simply insert Lowrie as the starting second baseman and pretty much call it a day. But there are serious doubts that Lowrie is ready to handle that kind of load. The good news is that at last look, Lowrie ripped a double off Jacob deGrom in a sim game. The bad news is no one has any idea how much his leg will allow him to play in 2020.

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