Traded Mets Player Tears Up During Game, Then Gets Untraded

Yet, even though Carlos Gomez arrived at Miller Park on Thursday and went through the usual game day workouts as the Brewers prepared to host the Chicago Cubs, Gomez wasn’t in the starting lineup later that night after he was traded, less than an hour before the first pitch, to the Houston Astros. Word of the trade made its way into the Mets dugout, where Flores learned he’d be leaving the organization he’d been with since signing as a 16-year-old in 2007.

We react to that news-which is what I did Wednesday night. Gomez, 29, is a two-time All-Star in center field and a 2013 National League Gold Glove Award victor. He is also under contract until next season and cost only $9 million. Players informed about their own trades are usually pulled from games due to concerns of possible field injuries that could derail the deal. Melvin said it was important to get prospects closer to the majors instead of the low minors as the rebuilding process for his last-place team commences. It was tough with Carlos; it was very emotional to tell him this again after what he went through yesterday.

Fiers, 30, is 5-9 with a 3.89 ERA in 21 starts this year. In return, the Brewers receive outfielders Brett Phillips, Domingo Santana, right-hander Adrian Houser and left-hander Josh Hader. Additional, Houston received slot #76 in the 2015-16 worldwide pool.

“There is no trade”, Alderson said. Phillips was one of the ‘Stros top MiLB hitters, as he is hitting. 298 with an OPS of.862. As Jason pointed out in a previous article via Baseball Prospectus, something along the lines of Clint Frazier, Tyler Naquin, and Erik Gonzalez likely would not have been good enough for Gomez.

The New York Times reports that Mets Manager Terry Collins said after the game that he knew nothing about any final trade so did not take Flores out.

“By adding these two”, Toronto manager John Gibbons said, “it gives me a shot in the arm”. 321 with a. 372 OBP, one home run, eight doubles, four triples and 18 RBIs in 31 games since getting called up to Double-A Corpus Christi. I feel awful for Wilmer. At the time, Flores believed he had been traded from the team he had joined as a teenager.

The Astros seem to have completed their haul and could now be setting their sights at a postseason berth. “They were fine with it”. A few reports are saying that the Mets backed out because of money. “Everyone has to make those decisions”.

Alderson shut the door on the team revisiting Gomez before Friday’s trade deadline. Looks like Flores will get a second chance with the Mets after all. We have a chance to win next year.

As for Gomez, he was traded to Houston on Thursday, questionable hip and all.