1 lightweight, 1 middleweight, and 1 heavyweight NY Mets-Padres trade to make

Heavyweight Trade: David Peterson, Mark Vientos, Brandon Sproat, Jett Williams, Ryan Clifford, and Jack Wenninger for Nick Pivetta and Fernando Tatis Jr.

Snowballs have a better chance in a Boca Raton summer than seeing this happen. It’s the motherload of trades that’ll help set up both ball clubs for something they’re aiming to do.

Some of the same rules apply. Peterson and Pivetta swap places. Vientos gets a new home. The big change is we now see the Mets unload notable prospects who feel a little secondary to others in exchange for Fernando Tatis Jr.

While the thought is the Mets are trading their $341 million player to the Padres, wouldn’t it make more sense for the $340 million shortstop turned elite right fielder go the other way instead? The Padres are the ones trying to shed salary. The Mets want to clear roster space and get better.

There are things to love and hate from both perspectives. The Padres are taking big risks and losing the best player in the deal. They could very well get nothing at all in exchange for a superstar in his mid-20s.

Many of these same prospects are coming up in mock trades for Tarik Skubal. As a rental, it’s less sensible for the Mets to unload this kind of package. For Tatis, it’s franchise-altering.

Risk-adverse fans in New York wouldn’t have interest in this deal. As for Padres fans, they wouldn’t see the value a bunch of lesser players can bring.

The more heavyweight these hypotheticals get, the more complicated they appear and unrealistic they feel. The Mets and Padres line up well for deals of all weight classes. It’s now a matter of David Stearns and A.J. Preller agreeing on something. They made Josh Hader to the Padres happen in 2022.