Mets Trades through the years: Who Won?
Year 5: November 2016 through October 2017.
The 2016 - 2017 trading season was interesting in that the Mets made no off-season trades. They did get involved at the non-waiver deadline with three deals that week and then three more non-waiver trades in August. July 27 through August 19, 2017 is the month I will remember Sandy collecting mostly marginal relief pitchers like I collected "common" baseball cards. To this day, I don’t understand that summer of dealing, but there is still one pitcher left (Smith) who may help out in 2022. I guess if you throw enough stuff at a wall, something might stick.
Starting with the non-waiver week trades on July 27, 28, and 31 are the first three:
(1) New York Mets traded Lucas Duda to the Tampa Bay Rays for Drew Smith (Jul 27, 2017)
(2) New York Mets traded Ricardo Cespedes and Merandy Gonzalez to the Miami Marlins for AJ Ramos (Jul 28, 2017)
(3) New York Mets traded Addison Reed to the
Boston Red Sox for Jamie Callahan, Gerson Bautista, and Stephen Nogosek (Jul 31, 2017)
They didn’t slow down much in August dealing three of their starting
line-up for not much help:
(4) New York Mets traded Jay Bruce to the Cleveland Indians for Ryder Ryan (Aug 09, 2017)
(6) New York Mets traded Curtis Grandersonto the Los Angeles Dodgers for Jacob Rhame (Aug 19, 2017)
I see they now have re-signed Nogosek to a minor league deal.
It is interesting in looking now at all the guys they traded for the stash of arms.
Jay Bruce was having quite a good year with the Mets in 2017 with 29 homers by the trade. He played with 5 different organizations after the trade, including another stint with the Mets and never really got back on track before retiring last year.
Granderson was about spent and did not hit much at all with the pennant winning Dodgers that year.
Walker and Duda each had a couple more nondescript years and Reed pitched OK with Boston down the stretch as they won the AL East, but then had a poor year with Minnesota and has not pitched since 2018.
The trades of 2017 were pretty much a draw - nobody helped anybody after the trades. If Drew Smith comes around and can deliver some good innings, perhaps we'll revisit and call the year a win.
Lots of bad salary dumps - these other teams saw the tightwad Wilpons and figured they could withhold talent in those deals if the Mets could at least show their fans the APPEARANCE of some talent coming back while they cut payroll.
ReplyDeleteIf, say, it was the Red Sox making those deals, they would have gotten more back than the Mets did, I think.
Only the Duda for Smith trade has made sense.
#3 and #6 were, IMO, big Mets loses.
ReplyDeleteThe rest. .. steak knives.
At the time of these trades it was reported that the Mets could have received better prospects if they swallowed some financial liabilities. The Mets declined. Hence the poor return.
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