SLACKISH REACTION: holy clickbait Batman, the Content Farmers at the AAIMBR are really at it today. Every article inserts a random name and then asks if the Mets COULD get him. Let me break down a potential Mike Trout deal for you.
Trout has $400 million left on his deal and will make $35M this year, so I would expect the Mets to look for some salary relief in such a deal. That COULD come in the form of Robinson Cano, but at that point I would expect the Angels to ask for a whole lot of inexpensive parts.
The Angels will need a power pat in the lineup, so I would expect Conforto to go in the deal. The Angels also really need pitching – so looks like Syndergaard could finally be on his way out of town, and the Mets would have to throw in someone like Stroman.
Also, the Angels have their next decade built around Trout so the Mets would likely have to throw in some “prospects” as well. The other team in these deals always love prospects.
So Trout for Syndergaard, Stroman, Conforto, Cano and “prospects” – could Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen be looking to make such a deal?
Mike Trout is a very big baseball star. Is this a picture of him with his family or some generic stock photo I grabbed off WordPress’ back end? You aren’t sure are you. Well, if the Mets complete this trade with the Angels, you will definitely recognize him.
Clearly the Mets acquiring Trout will make the team better, and solve their problem in Center Field. If Cespedes is able to rebound, the Alonso-Cespedes-Trout middle of the lineup would be one for the ages!
Is today’s post compete crap? Yes, yes it is. But this is the kind of crap those other sites hand in every single day…and some of those sites are even owned by Comcast.
Could the Mets be looking to make a Mike Trout deal? Yes, yes they could.
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My favorite part of this post is I am not even sure if that is Mike Trout or some random stock photo. Baseball does not have stars. They just think they do.
