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Mets trade their closer to Miami, per Athletic.

Two minor league position players are the return.

Very interesting, he was warming up in the bullpen prior to the rain delay so this must have been completed VERY last minute

Looks like they're throwing in the towel. And to a WC rival, no less.

Rain-delay dealing!

If this deal goes through, he'll leave the team 25th on the all-time save list, tied with Robert Gsellman and Jack Hamilton.

This sucks.

So who's gonna replace Robertson in the Mets bullpen (as if it's gonna even matter)? Some ineffective humpty-dumpty reliever, no doubt. And it seems as if the Mets had cycled through 30 or 40 of this type over the last five or so seasons. Times two when Raley's dealt. Maybe Raley's value goes up with Robertson now unavailable to contenders. With the Mets 2023 luck, Raley'll catch a bad case of Covid before he can be traded.

Watch the Mets pen get really toxic and flammable now.

A shortstop and a catcher. Two positions where they're lacking in prospects.

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Well, teenagers rarely end up at the position they start at. Basically two lottery picks, ranked 18th and 21st in the Miami system.

If there was any doubt, they're throwing in the towel. Back up the truck.

Maybe in 3 years, we're saying, "I can't believe we got Vargas for a guy who would be a FA in 2 months" but for now, they acquired two teenagers that will be merely names on a list for 3 years. I thought that they were going for high-level/close to ML-ready players but we have to believe that Billy sees something in these young players.

Billy made it seem like it was an offer he couldn't refuse.

Let's make more deals

Gwreck wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:13 amThis sucks.

The punting of 2023 has officially begun. Frowny face

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 7:32 am Billy made it seem like it was an offer he couldn't refuse.

Let's make more deals

Yeah, highly rated prospects apparently, perhaps one day we will look back and praise Billy

Robertson was our best trading chip. This return seems underwhelming.

Marshmallowmilkshake wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 7:45 am Robertson was our best trading chip. This return seems underwhelming.

Even if Robertson was the best trading chip, I don't see how that would be relevant to what the Mets got in return for trading him. I mean, if the Mets had a better trading chip; is that supposed to have diminished Robertson's value? What does Robertson's value have to do with how good or bad any of the other Mets are?

They gave Robertson away

Couldn't get Mead or Carson Williams

Wtf

The Marlins signed Vargas for $17500

RealityChuck wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 7:10 am A shortstop and a catcher. Two positions where they're lacking in prospects.

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My first thought.
Later

Not that this has much to do with Robertson or our two new prospects
but I read somewhere the other day that Edwin Diaz is stretching out his
throwing arm and now chucking 150 feet. He wants to pitch in 2023 and
the Mets have not said no-way-jose. Yet.

I don't think any team should eschew acquiring talent at a position where they already have talent. It's all a process with a lot of moving pieces and an unknown future.

I can't imagine how this can be thought of as giving a player away. This is two months of a reliever at the tag end of his career.

Better than the 3 shitty relievers that we got in the Addison Reed deal

No so much giving this particular player away as it gives the impression of the red flag inching up the flagpole for this season. His leaving lowers their chances for success unless they acquire (or find in the minors) a high leverage reliever of equal ability.

Later

I'm not sure what a red flag is representing here. (A socialist uprising? A potentially bad boyfriend? Danger at the beach?)

The giving the player away locution was ashie's.

I would have preferred getting someone closer to the big leagues, maybe a AAA outfielder or starting pitcher, but I have to assume that the Mets made the best deal that was available to them.