The Mets have not had any significant trade talks recently, Sandy Alderson told reporters during this morning’s media scrum in Port St. Lucie.
“We’re focused on what’s going on in camp and evaluating what we already have,” Alderson told reporters. “If there’s going to be any significant trade talk, I think that’s going to happen later in Spring Training unless there’s an injury of some sort.”
Alderson continued to say that trades typically don’t occur until the second half of Spring Training.
This quote from Alderson comes the morning after SB Nation’s Chris Cotillo wrote that some people in baseball circles believe that the Mets could potentially swing a trade with the Texas Rangers revolving around pitcher Dillon Gee and injured Rangers shortstop Jurickson Profar.
Gee has been the likeliest Mets pitcher to be involved in a trade this offseason, according to multiple reports throughout the Winter, but has also told our own Michael Baron that he wants to stay in New York, and is willing to transition into the bullpen if that’s what he’s asked to do.
In regards to the Gee-for-Profar report, I’m just not sure how much it makes sense for either side. For the Mets, it’s buying damaged goods with Profar in that he will have likely missed nearly two full seasons when he’s ready to play again in 2016. On the Rangers side of things, it may make even less sense to trade a once highly touted prospect when his value is at his lowest, especially when the potential package, as Cotillo wrote, could be Gee and “some additional pieces.”
Based on the feel that reporters have had and what Sandy Alderson has been saying so far this Spring, barring a significant injury on another team, of course, I would expect Gee to be in the bullpen and on the Mets Opening Day roster.
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