{"id":313617,"date":"2026-08-04T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313617\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:12:21","slug":"mets-david-stearns-trade-deadline-was-about-the-future-but-red-flags-for-2027-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313617\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets, David Stearns\u2019 trade deadline was about the future, but red flags for 2027 emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cReally tough decisions there,\u201d Stearns said. \u201cNot straightforward. Had a lot of internal discussion and debate. Ultimately, the returns we were able to get we thought made sense, were in the best interest of the organization, recognizing that at this time of year, you\u2019re often able to get really good talent back for relief pitching. We understand that we\u2019re going to have to go out and acquire relievers in the offseason in different ways to get our bullpen to where we expect it to be in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The starting rotation is also full of holes, though the ones that once filled such places were not necessarily serviceable. A couple of weeks before Holmes was sent to Chicago, David Peterson was sent to the NL Central club. Freddy Peralta\u2019s nightmare tenure in Queens also came to an end on Sunday with a trade to the Rays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/sports\/freddy-peralta-mets-lights-bright-8-4-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Were Mets lights too bright for Freddy Peralta?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That leaves the Mets with Nolan McLean, Christian Scott, and potentially Sean Manaea, with No. 2 prospect Jonah Tong on the cusp of being a full-time member of the rotation.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Other teams, like the Toronto Blue Jays, managed to pick up starting pitching despite subtracting from the rotation. They traded Kevin Gausman, but then brought in Jose Soriano and Spencer Arrighetti.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe explored a number of those types of players,\u201d Stearns said. \u201cUltimately, just couldn\u2019t line up on acquisition cost, but it is something that we explored.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cReally tough decisions there,\u201d Stearns said. \u201cNot straightforward. Had a lot of internal discussion and debate. Ultimately, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19920,2032,20,9,24,55,54,56,319],"class_list":["post-313617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-david-stearns","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313617","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=313617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}