{"id":338366,"date":"2025-12-10T01:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338366\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:18:10","slug":"mets-open-to-dealing-david-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338366\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Open To Dealing David Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets are willing to entertain offers on starter\u00a0David Peterson<\/a>, write Tim Britton and Will Sammon of The Athletic<\/a>. That probably wouldn\u2019t be for prospects but could be part of a swap for a player at a position of need.<\/p>\n

New York has a question at first base and designated hitter with\u00a0Pete Alonso<\/a> remaining unsigned.\u00a0Mark Vientos<\/a> could step into one of those positions, but he\u2019s a question mark coming off a replacement level season. With\u00a0Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a> heading to the Dodgers (pending a physical), upgrading the late innings is a must. The Mets signed\u00a0Devin Williams<\/a> to give them cover in the ninth, but their setup group \u2014 especially among right-handers \u2014 isn\u2019t good enough right now.<\/p>\n

The Mets already pulled off one veteran for veteran swap with the\u00a0Brandon Nimmo<\/a>\/Marcus Semien<\/a> deal. That opened a spot in left field. President of baseball operations David Stearns confirmed on Monday that the club is in the outfield market (via Britton<\/a>). They\u2019ve been speculated more as a free agent suitor for\u00a0Kyle Tucker<\/a> or\u00a0Cody Bellinger<\/a>, but they\u2019re presumably open to adding to the outfield in trade.<\/p>\n

All that said, it\u2019s not as if the Mets have a lockdown rotation. It\u2019s a talented group but one without much certainty. Nolan McLean<\/a>, who has made all of eight career starts, would probably have gotten the ball in Game 1 of a playoff series had they not collapsed in September. Peterson was their most reliable starter overall, though his terrible second half was part of the reason that New York squandered a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old southpaw carried a 3.06 earned run average into the All-Star Break. He allows 6.34 earned runs per nine in the second half, including 18 runs across 16 2\/3 frames in September. A lot of that is attributable to a spike in his batting average allowed on balls in play, but Peterson\u2019s walk rate jumped in August and his strikeouts plummeted in the season\u2019s final month.<\/p>\n

It was still a solid performance in aggregate. The former first-rounder turned in a 4.22 ERA across a team-leading 168 2\/3 innings. He got ground-balls at a very high 54.7% clip while slightly worse than average strikeout and walk numbers. Peterson\u2019s performance has been up-and-down over the course of his career, but he has a 4.12 ERA with decent underlying marks in more than 600 innings.<\/p>\n

Peterson is headed into his final season of club control. MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projects<\/a> him for a $7.6MM arbitration salary. He\u2019d probably double that if he were to sign a one-year contract as a free agent, so there should be a few million dollars of surplus value. There\u2019s a chance he pitches well enough to put himself in consideration for a qualifying offer next winter.<\/p>\n

If he\u2019s not traded, Peterson will open the season in Carlos Mendoza\u2019s rotation. McLean and Sean Manaea<\/a> are locked in as well.\u00a0Clay Holmes<\/a> stuck as a starter all year but has plenty of experience in the bullpen.\u00a0Kodai Senga<\/a> has come up in trade talks.\u00a0Christian Scott<\/a>,\u00a0Jonah Tong<\/a> and\u00a0Brandon Sproat<\/a> are high-upside talents who might all begin the season in Triple-A. The Mets are almost certainly going to add at least one starter, though they\u2019re reportedly reluctant to go long term in free agency. They\u2019ve been most frequently tied to\u00a0Michael King<\/a> as a potential target on the open market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets are willing to entertain offers on starter\u00a0David Peterson, write Tim Britton and Will Sammon of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,188234,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-338366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-david-peterson","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}