The New York Mets are going to be an interesting team to watch ahead of the MLB trade deadline. Many believe they’ll be sellers and will be looking to add young talent to build their future.
As the 2024 MLB season continues forward, the Chicago Cubs are getting worse and worse. They started off the season strong, but unfortunately have fallen completely off. Jed Hoyer will have to make a tough decision ahead of the upcoming trade deadline.
For Piazza, broad horizons have been a way of life. Raised outside Philadelphia, he played anywhere he could — the Dominican Republic, Mexico — after getting his professional chance as a token draft choice of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988. Ten years later, a contract dispute led him, via the Marlins, to the Mets, the team he represents in the Hall of Fame.
The Dodgers bungled their chance to keep Piazza, trading him in May 1998 only to sign free-agent Kevin Brown to baseball’s first $100 million contract that December. By then, Piazza had signed a long-term deal with the Mets, concluding an enriching but arduous process he still describes as traumatic.
One option will be to get aggressive and add talent to the current roster. Chicago has shown that it can win baseball games, but an influx of talent may be necessary.
The other option would be to sell some of the talent they currently have and rebuild in the offseason to be better in 2025.
Obviously, Cubs fans are hoping that the team can still win this season. There is enough talent on the roster to make an aggressive approach to the deadline worthwhile.
This is where the Mets and Chicago could come together on a big trade deadline deal. Pete Alonso has been a name that the Cubs have been interested in for quite some time and Chicago has a lot of young talent that could be moved in the right deal.
Tim Boyle of Rising Apple has suggested that New York should pursue a reunion with Pete Crow-Armstrong.
The young outfielder has yet to figure things out with the Cubs and could be available in the right trade. What Boyle suggests is that the Mets offer Alonso and starting pitcher David Peterson in exchange for a young talent. Crow-Armstrong was one idea.
