New York Mets Acquire Yoenis Cespedes From Detroit Tigers — Major League Baseball News

Cespedes, in his first year with the Tigers after being traded from Boston in December, is hitting. Cespedes comes with a big price tag, so his future with New York is very uncertain for the time being. It’s simple! It’s because the Tigers wouldn’t get a draft pick compensation for losing Cespedes once free agency starts in the offseason, which was likely going to happen. “We think he’s going to impact us in a number of different ways”.

I believe both sides won the trade today, and it will be interesting to watch this play out.

The Detroit Tigers held on for a 9-8 win last night at Baltimore in the opener of a 4-game series with the Orioles. The Tigers traded top starting pitcher David Price to Toronto Thursday and sent closer Joakim Soria over to the Pittsburgh Pirates later in the day. The Mets trail first-place Washington by three games in the NL East, but New York rank last in the major leagues in runs and batting average, and is 29th in on-base percentage and slugging.

He’s expected to join New York on Saturday before the Mets game against the Nationals. Teams rarely run on him as a result of his ability to throw runners out at the plate when attempting to score. Parra was acquired Friday in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers.

Thursday’s trade marked the third Alderson made in the past seven days, having previously traded for Tyler Clippard, Kelly Johnson and Juan Uribe.

Down 6-0 in the fourth inning, the Orioles teed off against the pitching-poor Tigers and went ahead 7-6 in the sixth when Machado hit a two-run drive off rookie Jose Valdez (0-1), making his big league debut. “We’ll deal with next season later”.

Neither the Mets nor the Tigers have announced that the deal has been completed.

The Mets have a more reliable player in Cespedes. Or they can keep Conforto here and shift Curtis Garnderson to center field. He has enjoyed a solid season, hitting. He previously had more success at Double-A where he tossed 77.1 innings with a 2.56 ERA this season. The other prospect is 23-year-old righty Luis Cessa, who had made 5 starts at AAA after having a 2.56 ERA in 13 AA starts. He has struck out 85 batters and walked 21 with a combined 3.98 ERA.

On Wednesday, Detroit Tigers’ general manager Dave Dombrowski confirmed an ESPN report that indicated that the team is planning to reboot. “You have to kind of assess where you are”.

Earlier this week, the Indians, who recently lost six straight games and fell back in the AL wild-card race, dealt outfielder David Murphy to the Angels and sent slugger Brandon Moss to St. Louis. Although a wild-card berth remains a possibility, Dombrowski apparently thought looking toward next year and beyond was a better option.

The Mets, armed with a rotation of top-flight young pitchers but struggling to score runs, nabbed the power-hitter they had longed for in the deal with Detroit.

“I feel like the more the season goes on the higher my expectation are for myself”, Fulmer said after the game.