3 NY Mets players fans need to stop including in their mock trade packages for an ace pitcher

2) Dom Hamel

The inclusion of Mets prospect Dom Hamel in any mock trades where a player of significance is brought back to Queens is laughable at this point. The Mets literally told all 29 teams they could have him in the Rule 5 Draft. Nobody took the bait. He remains with the Mets with another shot in 2025 to try to recapture what once made him a somewhat significant member of the minor league system.

Why, oh why, would anyone view him as a nice throw-in for any trade? He turns 26 in March and after posting a 6.79 ERA in Triple-A last season, his stock is in the toilet. Heavy walk and home run numbers with falling strikeout totals were enough to scare off everyone else from making him a Rule 5 Draft claim or going the direction the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays did with the former claiming Mike Vasil and immediately sending him to the latter for cash.

Outdated Mets prospect lists will still rate Hamel somewhere in the mid-teens, but when updates happen we should expect a dramatic fall off if not a complete removal. 

Hamel could still get traded. But if the deal is one where the Mets are getting back a valuable player, he’s just a warm body that adds little to push the trade through.