MLB rumors: Another star turned down Dodgers, Mets new trade piece, more
By Josh Wilson
The MLB trade deadline may be behind us, but the MLB rumors keep on flowing. Today we have updates on the Dodgers getting denied and the Mets future.
The MLB trade deadline has come and gone, with teams now left with few options to upgrade their roster if they still need to.
The race to the postseason is on, with September coming up quickly. With a still-expanded Wild Card slot, teams have more reason than ever to keep their foot on the pedal all year long.
Here’s some of the latest rumor talk from around the MLB.
Buck Showalter’s future with the Mets
The New York Mets made a massive pivot on their strategy to buy as much talent as possible and hope that it accumulates into wins. Half a season in and they’ve realized that strategy is a poor one, instead pivoting to the way things have always been done: Building up a pipeline of young players and focusing on development.
It might take Steve Cohen longer to build a winner than he’d like, but this is truly the right way to do it. He’s saying all of the right things to fans in the stead of a miserable facing of the facts at the trade deadline, let’s see how he follows through on his sudden epiphany.
Lost in all of this, though, is Buck Showalter. Is he the manager to lead this team into this new era? That’s a great question, and a topic that has been hardly broached while more pressing matters have gotten the lion’s share of attention.
Bob Nightengale, in his latest column, said Showalter’s fate will be the, “first order of business,” for the Mets this offseason.
Showalter feels like more of a win-now manager, and has been critiqued by Mets fans for his lack of a tendency to give young players opportunities. A betting person might put their money on Showalter getting shown the door at the end of this season.
With a year left on his deal, it might serve the Mets to just ride out the remainder of the deal and see how things go. After all, they’re looking at 2025 or 2026 before they’re highly competitive again, anyway.