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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5126361, member: 289"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5669757/2024/07/30/oakland-athletics-lucas-erceg-paul-blackburn-trade-analysis/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=5973799[/URL] "Blackburn gives the Mets some length in their rotation, which is more important now that it’s clear [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/player/kodai-senga-7dITMyGsYFtfbT2w/']Kodai Senga[/URL] is out for the year, although it’s more about giving the better starters some extra time rather than bolstering the playoff rotation... The other starter they got is right-hander Kade Morris, from the Mets, who was a third-round pick in 2023 from Nevada-Reno. He has pitched well in Low and High A this year but probably should have started at High A and moved to Double A given his collegiate experience. He’s a sinker/slider guy who gets a lot of groundballs and pop-ups, with solid-average control. He’s probably a fifth starter now who could be a fourth starter if he improves his fringy changeup." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5669750/2024/07/30/mlb-trade-grades-paul-blackburn-mets-athletics/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=5973799[/URL] "A wise fellow once said that you can never have too much pitching. The Mets could use some more pitching. Blackburn is, in fact, a pitcher. " [I]Boring is good for pitchers. We look to our hitters for excitement. [/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5671185/2024/07/31/mets-trade-deadline-analysis-2/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=5973799[/URL] "The only thing aggressive about the [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/team/mets/']Mets’[/URL] activity at the trade deadline Tuesday was how much they leaned into making it nondescript. [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/player/paul-blackburn-BWg5DrWmI6XPWWk6/']Paul Blackburn[/URL], [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/player/huascar-brazoban-FhaTPNWq8gHFLspy/']Huascar Brazobán[/URL] and [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/player/tyler-zuber-dliMte7RX2LkejU1/']Tyler Zuber[/URL] — this was reaching into your drawer and pulling out a quarter zip. This was cleaning your plate of vegetables and saving the ice cream for next year." "No, the restraint Stearns showed is one of the chief reasons he’s here in this job. The trade deadline is when you cut through the corporate speak and find out, via actions, what a front office really thinks about the team it’s constructed. And what Stearns told you, in his first deadline with the Mets, is that he thinks they’re, you know, pretty good." [/QUOTE]

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