{"id":330006,"date":"2025-12-04T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330006\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:08:10","slug":"byron-buxton-an-intriguing-mets-option-if-twins-fortunes-change-his-no-trade-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330006\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Buxton an intriguing Mets option \u2014 if Twins&#8217; fortunes change his no-trade stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a great time for the Mets to need a center fielder.<\/p>\n<p>The free agent market is thin enough to inspire Ozempic rumors. Cody Bellinger is the best available, but at 30 he is probably better off in a corner outfield spot or at first base. <\/p>\n<p>Last season\u2019s offensive uptick did not shake Harrison Bader\u2019s glove-first reputation. The next-best available might have been Cedric Mullins before the Mets flop reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/03\/sports\/cedric-mullins-signing-one-year-contract-with-the-rays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agreed to a deal with the Rays on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are reported trade possibilities \u2014 the Astros\u2019 Jake Meyers, Red Sox\u2019s Jarren Duran and White Sox\u2019s Luis Robert Jr. among them \u2014 which would be expensive particularly because of the dearth of free-agent options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is not a great time for the Mets to need a center fielder. The free agent market&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[167477,2326,363,153567,1189,99,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-330006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-bryon-buxton","9":"tag-minnesota-twins","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}