Like every big league team, the New York Mets need to tweak their roster and especially the starting lineup they roll out there to begin the 2017 season. There are clear keepers like a Noah Syndergaard and there are also players who fall under the category of “we’re stuck with you and we’ll hope for the best” like a David Wright.
But then, there are players who either don’t fit into the overall plans for the team, or they’ve overstayed their welcome and need to move on. This is about those players…
Around this time of the year, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson and all GMs throughout baseball begin to formulate a plan that, along with their coaching and scouting staff, constitutes the makeup of the team they want to bring north next season.
Holes in the team makeup are identified as well as strengths that don’t need to be touched. The scouting staffers might throw some names out there of players who would be a good fit on the team and who might be available in the right trade.
However, another list is also penciled in for players who are deemed expendable. These are the ones who need to be moved. There may or may not be an immediate avenue available to accomplish the move, but there is definitely a target on their back and one way or another they will not be with the Mets when the season begins. Or, at least that’s the plan.
In the past, Alderson has been tight lipped about anything he does regarding the Mets roster. He was hammered incessantly prior to the trade deadline this year to “please do something” to turbo-charge the anemic Mets offense. And as we know, at the last moment he brought Jay Bruce in to quell the uproar.
Who then are the expendable Mets players that Alderson should be thinking about dumping before the 2017 season begins? In order from least to most expendable, they are…