Joe Demayo of NY Baseball Digest believes the Mets and Yankees have interest in Pirates LHP John Grabow.
In a post to Twitter, Heyman also lists Nationals LHP Joe Beimel and Jays LHP Scott Downs as potential candidates.
Original Post, 12:30 pm:
This afternoon on WFAN, SI.com’s Jon Heyman said the Mets met yesterday to discuss the trade deadline, and, among other things, are looking for a left-handed reliever to take pressure off Pedro Feliciano.
However, the Mets are not interested in trading away top prospects, including players like Brad Holt, Jennry Mejia and Ike Davis.
Heyman is co-hosting the mid-day show on WFAN, which you can listen to live, online, by clicking here.
Update, 12:55 pm:
Buster Olney of ESPN.com believes the Phillies may look to acquire O’s LHP George Sherrill if they are unable to acquire Roy Halladay.
…the buzz around baseball suggests Sherrill and Blue Jays LHP Scott Downs could be available, though downs is more likely to be traded at the last minute…
…the Dodgers and Phillies have been linked in rumor to sherrill, who has a 2.40 ERA, while left-handed batters are hitting .136 against him…
The 33-year-old Downs has a 3.18 ERA for the Blue Jays, while left-handed batters are hitting .256 against him.
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Why would they look for another lefty reliever?? Pat Misch has got it done since he’s been here! That’s prolly the last thing they need to be looking for! I think Heyman is nuts
Heyman, or do you mean Omar?
I understand taking pressure of Pedro, especially so he doesn’t fall apart by the end of the year, but seriously, that is not the priority right now.
shouldn’t they be getting a pretty good lefty reliever when Wagner returns in a few weeks?
thats a pretty solid point, haha, and it might not be as long as a few weeks either. I think Billy can get lefties out
Free Pat Misch!
Opponents are hitting a collective .302 off Misch and he has surrendered 19 hits and 11 walks in 16.1 innings.
but what are his lefty/righty splits? That collective .302 could break down to .200 against lefties and .400 against righties.
Lefties are hitting .310, righties are hitting .294.
hrmph. I seem to recall him pitching better than that. I remember seeing him and thinking he was pretty good. Oh well.
Awfully nice of Omar to let Heyman sit in on their meeting.
Are they not counting on Wagner coming back? I can’t imagine us getting a lefty better than him via trade. Then we can look for a FA during the offseason. This is yet another head scratcher, in my opinion.
The Mets do not want to go over the luxury cap number and have about 5 million available to spend so this sounds right. I thought we addressed the bullpen in the off-season Omar!!!
Not true at all they are NOOOOOOO way near the luxury cap.
They could take on Halladay’s contract and a slugger and still not hit the luxury cap.
The Mets went into this season allocating $8 million towards Garcia and figured in their plans that he would earn the $8 million. He got cut so that is atleast $8 million free right there. Also we went into the season with a payroll less than last season on top of the $8 million allocated toward Garcia. We have plenty of room for an addition. The problem is the Wilpons got wiped out
If the Mets fortunes were intrinsically intwined into the Madoff situation that Fred Wilpon was embroiled in they would already be seeking to sell the team.
Even if you believe the high end $, which came from Larry King btw (rolling eyes) the Wilpons would stand to recoup almost all of Fred’s losses by selling the team, which now includes a new stadium and a network.
Huh?
What is the point of a lefty reliever???? That is not gonna help us win the friggin wild card. If that is the only move they want to make I rather they just raise the white flag and wait until the off season.
agreed, I think another good lefty reliever is needed to beat the phillies only because we play so many tight games and obviously their 3 boppers are lefties.
But that is a problem for the postseason if we happen to win the wild card and face them in the NLCS , because I highly doubt we are catching the phillies, I think Misch is good enough right now, especially if a lefty reliever is taking away from other priorities
Mets don’t face the Philies again until 8/21. Unless Wagner has suffered some sort of setback that we don’t know about, he’s supposed to be back by then by all accounts. Just the other week Gary was noting the irony that the first Met off the DL might be Wagner.
He got hurt first.
He had Tommy John surgery so the fact he might be back this season at all is a big deal, let alone before all the others.
Delgado seems like he’ll be back at some point in that he isn’t really still injured, just trying to get back to playing shape where as Beltran is still hurt and Reyes is trying to come back, but those two are more at risk for a big setback than Delgado. Thats all Dr.Starz opinion though.
Why not promote lefty reliever Adam Bostick from AAA? He’s had a good year, and not only wouldn’t cost top prospects, he wouldn’t cost anyone (except Pat Misch, Elmer Dessens, or Tim Redding, depending on who he would replace).
Speaking of relievers, whatever happened to Lance Broadway?
he is starting in AAA, and generally pitching like crap.
Nothing. He’s been starting for Buffalo, but aside from throwing a complete game (one run allowed) earlier this month, he’s been quite ordinary.
I thought Wagner was close to coming back, isn’t he a lefty?
forgot about him. WIth any luck, that will be your guy.
Bingo.
(assuming, of course, that he comes back and is effective)
this makes no real sense.
Misch has done fine, and frankly, which lefty releiver will they be able to get that is any better?
And like others mentioned, Bostick is pitching very well at AAA, and cost nothing.
In the big scheme of Met needs, a different lefty RP is about #16.
maybe we are taking the comment too literally to mean they are going to trade for one.
maybe they will find one in the minors or on the DL!
Matt:
My Phillies fan friends are telling me that a trade by the Phillies for Lee is imminent.
No one is talking about this . I read it in Wallace Mathews column this morning:
“He’s this close to being out of baseball,” Jeff Wilpon told me, holding his thumb and forefinger a half-inch apart.
Jeff said that to Wallace when talking about Omar.
I am not happy with Newsday.
I think they are a bunch of bums.
Rubin got what he deserved. Omar was stupid for doing it at a news conference. He should have just taken Rubin aside and worked him over under the stadium.
I have seen up close what Omar can do to an ice cream cone. I am sure he could do the same to Rubin.
And after Rubin I hope he takes care of Matthews next.
He should have had Tony take him out when he was still on payroll
Where’s Silvio when you need him?
frankly shouldn’t we be considering pedro?
oh wait i forgot we’re winning the WC now
*trading pedro
I feel a friday let down.
Shouldn’t Omar be looking for an arm to back up Santana instead?
That’s the more glaring problem at the moment. The Phillies beat us to a starter again. Joe Blanton last year, and Cliff Lee this year.
why do we need a lefty reliever again?
Pedro’s arm is going to fall off?
If Wagner thinks he is ready, why not let him pitch?
maybe if we didnt use pedro EVERY night
for 3+ outs Every Night
he wouldnt be burnt out by august.
how bout trusting your other 5 relievers in the Pen.
the other Leftys arent all named ryan howard.
I heard that the Phillies where the front runners?
Good Idea Omar lets trade a prospect to a division rival, Nationals, for a reliever that we could have signed in the off season!
You can’t sign everyone, and you pass on guys who you aren’t sure about. But if a guy proves himself at another teams risk, is he no longer worth acquiring?
I’m not interested in a left handed relief pitcher when Billy Wagner is coming back and we are in a wild card race. WE NEED OFFENSE WHO CARES ABOUT A RELIEF PITCHER!!!!
Is this seriously a priority or all the Mets think they can do to help this team. Plus there are viable options in AAA plus you have Wagner as a possibility soon…how was this even mentioned in a meeting with all the other holes on this team?
This is why we SU*C*K*. A freakin lefty reliever? R U Kiding me? We have no bat in LF and we have 2 good starters and we are looking for a lefty reliever. What a joke!!!! I give up.
1. Omar is a terrible GM 2. The Wilpons are broke
Have the Mets ever, in their history, been intrested in anything at the deadline aside from additional bullpen help?
The Mets did not start 2009 with a viable leftfielder, don’t have one now, and don’t have one for 2010…what am I missing here?
Your not missing anything… It is absolutely MIND BOGGLING
what do you think it would take to get crawford?
Let me get this straight….Joe Biemel is a guy the mets want? and Adam Dunn is a guy the Mets couldve desperately used this season. Weren’t these guys free agents this past offseason? and Omar let them go to the Nats a division opponent (granted not a worthy one, but nonetheless). Omar has no plan the guy is completely reactionary and lacks all foresight. But please continue to stick up for the guy everyone.
PS: I’m pretty sure every poster was actually in agreement in the offseason that we needed another LHRP so feliciano wouldnt gas. And a large amount of us wanted to sign Dunn. Considering we also all wouldve signed K-rod and probably never touched Ollie as well I think I could honestly say that if you randomly selected a commenter from Metsblog he/she wouldve had a better offseason than Minaya.
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