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Less than two days until Major League Baseball’s trade deadline on Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. ET, and the Mets continue to be one of the hottest topics of conversation even after making to big trades to tell the rest of the sport that they’re waving the white flag in 2023.Â
Max Scherzer and David Robertson are gone, the former sent to the Texas Rangers. The latter sent in the division to the surprisingly-contending Miami Marlins.Â
It’s left a clubhouse that began the season talking about World Series aspirations in shock — the consequences of a miserable four months that’s put them on the outer limits of the National League Wild Card picture finally coming to fruition.Â
Steve Cohen spent more than $800 million to maintain a roster that won 101 games last season and bring on reinforcements to field a World Series contender this season. Instead, their hopes for winning the division died in June. They’re currently 18 games back of the first-place Atlanta Braves and 6.5 games back of the final Wild Card berth.
Rather than feed more of his great fortune into the underachieving club, Cohen has opted to cut his losses and begin the purge of expiring contracts that began back in June when he sent Eduardo Escobar to the Los Angeles Angels. But the gravity of the New York front office’s admittance that they’re selling is creating a last-minute frenzy before the deadline.Â
After Robertson and Scherzer were dealt, Justin Verlander — who as recently as last Tuesday said he was solely focused on being a Met — admitted that his stance about not waiving his no-trade clause has changed.
The Mets are undoubtedly getting calls on Verlander, including a previous inquiry from the Atlanta Braves and one from the Houston Astros in potential hopes of reuniting with the ace that won a Cy Young Award with them last…
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