1. Luis Robert Jr., White Sox<\/p>\n
After Byron Buxton made clear he was a \u201cTwin for life,\u201d the Mets then missed on Robert as they and the White Sox never got close (The Padres and Phillies didn\u2019t either, acquiring Ram\u00f3n Laureano and Harrison Bader instead). The Mets apparently didn\u2019t want to give up either Mark Vientos of Luisangel Acu\u00f1a as part of packages, or part with 3B\/OF Jacob Reimer or 2B\/OF A.J. Ewing<\/a>, either, since they viewed Robert as a rental (The Chisox, meantime, will consider picking up Robert\u2019s $20 million option).<\/p>\n Fine fallback option Cedric Mullins is better than his surprisingly mundane defensive analytics (plus two OAA, via Baseballsavant.com). \u201cI never understood why the defensive metrics didn\u2019t like him. I can\u2019t remember a ball dropping that I felt should have been caught,\u201d longtime Orioles manager Brandon Hyde told The Post.<\/p>\n 2. Byron Buxton, Twins<\/p>\n The Mets, Phillies, Padres, hometown Braves and others sought the ultra-talented Buxton \u2014 who, unlike teammate Carlos Correa, wouldn\u2019t waive his no-trade clause.<\/p>\n Chicago White Sox center fielder Luis Robert Jr. (88) hits a home run against the Seattle Mariners during the ninth inning at T-Mobile Park. Steven Bisig-Imagn Images<\/p>\n 3. and 4. Sandy Alcantara and Edward Cabrera, Marlins<\/p>\n The Marlins understandably wanted either Spencer Jones or Miami product George Lombard Jr. from the Yankees. The Red Sox and Cubs ultimately came closest, but no one was especially close for the two controllable star starters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. Luis Robert Jr., White Sox After Byron Buxton made clear he was a \u201cTwin for life,\u201d the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,11215,82,2091,2089],"class_list":["post-54430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}