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Mets get Francisco Lindor trade update that includes the Blue Jays, Red Sox, Yankees and Braves originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
It would be crazy to see the New York Yankees ever make a move for Francisco Lindor of the New York Mets. However, the Mets have also made it known that they are more than willing to move on from certain players over the next few weeks. Whether that means they actually move a superstar like Lindor remains to be seen, but nothing has suggested they won't.
Right now, the Mets just have to shed some salary, and the Yankees could benefit from that. However, according to the latest from ESPN's Jeff Passan, there are many other teams who could be potential fits, including the Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, and Atlanta Braves.
“Lindor is 32 and is off to a slower start this season, but most of that is hit luck as his expected wOBA last year and this year are almost identical; he is two points better this season. His raw tools aren't the selling point, either: His arm strength, sprint speed and bat speed are all average to below and have been for a couple of years.
“The ability to be good at everything while playing an elite shortstop has been the key to his career, and those things are still alive, even if a bit diminished so far this year. It's very likely we'll see positive regression from the rest of the season, and I'm not even worried about the next few years, but mapping his career out until 2031 is a different question altogether. Best fits: Blue Jays, Yankees, Red Sox, Braves,” Jeff Passan of ESPN wrote.
Having all four of these teams be interested in Lindor would be a perfect-case scenario for the Mets.
For an organization that clearly has to get money off the books and improve in any way it can, I don't think trading Lindor would be the worst idea.
Not that I necessarily ever agree with trading a player of his caliber, but if they can get these four teams in the mix and they all have massive bidding wars for him, I could see why they would do it.
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