I understand the disappointment and frustration about the trade, but the vitriol seems to me excessive. Díaz has the stuff to rebound, and closers, as the 2008 Mets showed us, don’t grow on trees. Davis, and he has replenished the farm system fairly quickly. Brodie made a very good trade-in getting J. It is interesting though that this particular trade has generated this amount of vitriol, as the Mets have made some terrible personnel decisions before, like letting Daniel Murphy and Justin Turner go, and some really disastrous trades, but the fan base for whatever reason has singled this one out. The history has not happened yet that a lot of reactions to the trade presume has already happened. I agree, on the basis of the 2019 season and the performance of the two players the Mets acquired, it was not a good trade, but, if there is a 2020 season, we will see how it turns out. Kelenic and Dunn are not All Stars, Díaz is still in his prime, and Canó may have some tricks in his bag. To call the trade disastrous assumes a history that hasn’t happened yet. A couple years down the road and you start the rebuild then is going to put some pain on the minor league system and their coaching staffers. The starting rotation will be a stop gap to who? Don’t get me wrong, that 5 is decent, but what young arms are they going to rely on? I just feel like the Mets are going to compete in the NL East but to what end. McNeal can do the job and is the captain of the team. Go back to the Mets, it’s Alonso and maybe Gimenez. He can work on the IF with Evan White (hope he pans out with contract not going to his head). He put some magic on the players he received in the deal and even though they were minor, Seattle shed salary and now have room on the roster for Kelenic, Rodriguez and Lewis in the OF in the next couple of years to bloom. Just looked like to me the baseball version of the “Draft Day” scene where Kevin Costner’s character baited Jeff Carson of the Bengals to take 3 2nd round picks and give up his first rounder so that “he wouldn’t look like a donkey.”Īnd that’s what DiPoto did. In BVG’s case, his “win” philosophy kept the conversation to “you want Diaz, you gotta overpay to get him.” This was the first deal that DiPoto ever really had his organization benefit from. I just think the inexperience of BVG was manipulated (assumed) by DiPoto. Yeah, the transaction swayed Seattle’s favor.
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