The Astros won seven of nine games against the New York clubs in a recently concluded stretch. It was a favor, in a way, to the Mets and Yankees.
For it was a midseason reminder that this is what playoff pitching is going to look like — the Mets and Yankees combined to score 16 runs and hit .139. So, it was good it wasn’t the playoffs because the Mets would have been swept four-nothing, and the Yankees would be down three-games-to-two. And it was good it came well before not only the playoffs, but also the Aug. 2 trade deadline. Because it became more obvious that the Mets and Yankees each need to find a bat .
Neither team is likely to overly rely on internal solutions. There is some push for the Mets to summon top prospect Francisco Alvarez to be at least the DH. But philosophically, general manager Billy Eppler is hesitant to call up a player straight from Double-A, especially one who is doing very well , but not dominating, and one he is concerned will have a savior tag applied during a pennant race.
You can find executives who think the Pirates will trade Bryan Reynolds and those who do not — what they agree is the asking price will be set so high as to make a deadline deal unlikely. The same essentially is said about the Orioles’ Austin Hays and Cedric Mullins.
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