{"id":307281,"date":"2026-07-28T01:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:47:13","slug":"a-blue-chip-mets-quick-fix-unlikely-to-materialize-at-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307281\/","title":{"rendered":"A blue-chip Mets quick fix unlikely to materialize at trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outside expectations for the Mets this trading season range from unrealistic to crazy unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the Mets have quantity to offer, but it\u2019s not the kind of quality that brings back blue-chip prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, they don\u2019t exactly have Tarik Skubal or Mason Miller to dangle.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Bo Bichette and Francisco Lindor are big names. But neither one has come close this year to performing up to their big contracts, which pay them $42M and $32M a year, respectively. And neither is likely to go in a trade, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outside expectations for the Mets this trading season range from unrealistic to crazy unrealistic. Sure, the Mets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20,94970,9,11,320,10,319,428],"class_list":["post-307281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","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-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307281","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=307281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}