{"id":280924,"date":"2026-06-29T10:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280924\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:04:21","slug":"the-looming-challenge-mets-are-starting-down-at-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280924\/","title":{"rendered":"The looming challenge Mets are starting down at trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We should be headed pretty soon to that unfortunate portion of the baseball season that happens far too frequently in Flushing. That, unhappily, is selling season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mets need a complete makeover,\u201d one big-league scout opined to The Post.<\/p>\n<p>That may be so. But it\u2019s hard to see them transforming into a winner based on any upcoming deals.<\/p>\n<p>Their trading season might actually be like those old Aqueduct flea markets, where it takes a lot of fancy haggling to extract anything of value. The Mets\u2019 wares aren\u2019t exactly in demand \u2014 at least not yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We should be headed pretty soon to that unfortunate portion of the baseball season that happens far too&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19920,36895,20,94970,9,11,320,10,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-280924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-david-stearns","tag-luke-weaver","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}