Why Mets made a Dodgers-like move in trading for Cedric Mullins
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss New York's deal to acquire the Orioles outfielder before Thursday's MLB trade deadline. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Cedric Mullins is going to the New York Mets to fill in and probably be the everyday outfielder.
Now, at first glance, a platoon would make sense.
He's a lefty; Tyrone Taylor is a righty.
However, Mullins's numbers against lefties this year are better than his numbers against righties.
He's kind of a reverse splits guy this season.
So I think he's just going to kind of be the everyday center fielder, at least at the beginning.
And that's a strong piece for the Mets, who have been waiting for Joseri to get back now for a little bit.
Yeah, and you know, it's interesting, by the way, people are validating you.
They're, everyone's throwing spaghetti, so you're actually in the clear here.
So this is on me.
I know, I guess I haven't been making spaghetti correctly, so I, I, I apologize.
I'm going to hold that out.
That's totally on me.
That said, as you were kind of mentioning, like, the bigger picture thing about the Mets too being able to do all these deals, this is really the first time where it's felt like what Steve Cohen wants them to be, which is the Dodgers, right?
When you're able to flip all these pieces that you didn't know they even had for now Major League talent, you're like, what?
How did they do that?
They still have all their top prospects.
That is very Dodgers-like, especially at a deadline where the Dodgers didn't end up doing very much, I think that says a lot about where the Mets are and you have to give them a lot of credit.