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Mets, Pirates swap Jon Niese for Neil Walker
In the event David Wright goes down with an injury, the Mets will be able to turn to Flores to play second base, shortstop, or third base instead of Ruben Tejada, while moving Neil Walker and/or Cabrera around accordingly.
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Just a few hours after working out a trade for Neil Walker, the New York Mets finished reworking half of their infield by signing Asdrubal Cabrera.
For the Mets he will fill the void left by Daniel Murphy and was a fallback plan as NY failed to sign Ben Zobrist.
Walker is eligible for arbitration. If he doesn’t, he can move to the bullpen – as he did late in the 2015 season – if and when the prospects are ready, then head for free agency after the year. He won the Silver Slugger Award in 2014.
With Cabrera, the Mets have an offensive upgrade over Wilmer Flores (who hit.263/.295/.408 last season with 16 home runs and 59 RBI), but Cabrera – like Flores – is a less than adequate defender at shortstop.
“It’s an exciting opportunity, obviously, with the success the Mets have had this past year”, Walker said.
“I’m a Pittsburgh person, bleeding black and gold since the day I was born”, Walker said. Of course, the Pirates have thrived recently on making somewhat depressing-looking pitcher acquisitions and then turning them into gold, but one would hope there would be a better way of making an acquisition like that than by trading an actual good player.
Hernandez, 30, was 1-5 with a 4.28 ERA in 40 relief appearances for Arizona this year.
“We’re trying to build a team with a lot of flexibility, versatility and depth”.
“I’m intending to do more”, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said.
Huntington said Josh Harrison will take over at second base and Jung Ho Kang is expected to shift to third next season after he is fully recovered from a takeout slide that left him with a broken leg and torn knee ligament.
First, let’s look at the team control.
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The Mets differ, though, in their starting rotation full of young power arms – Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz and eventually Zach Wheeler. It wouldn’t surprise me if there was a trade today. And if Walker plays up to his typical level, the Mets can likely extend him a qualifying offer after the season and feel confident he’ll reject it, netting them a draft pick.