3 NY Mets players who aren’t as safe as they think with the trade deadline nearing

3) Huascar Brazoban

No, Huascar Brazoban is not getting traded, released, cut, sent to the sun, etc. He was a superb pickup by the Mets at last year’s trade deadline, sneakily taking him from the Miami Marlins for a low-level prospect. For a good chunk of this season, Brazoban was the guy we could rely on most. Reality has set in. Brazoban hasn’t glistened quite the same.

Brazoban has been better after a few rough outings. However, with minor league options remaining, he might be someone who ends up in the minor leagues on a somewhat regular basis.

Let’s say the Mets do the right thing and they do add two players at the trade deadline. Suddenly, this gives them two optional relievers; Brazoban and Reed Garrett. Garrett has pitched far better than Brazoban this season.

Of course, the Mets could always look to add a player of the Brazoban ilk as one of their two trade deadline additions. Anthony Bender, a former teammate of Brazoban’s on the Miami Marlins, has minor league options. Plenty of others the Mets could possibly add would fit the same billing.

The Mets had moments this year where they needed to send down Max Kranick even when he was pitching well. Brazoban becoming more hittable shouldn’t protect him from going from a major league mainstay. He may, as he was last year, devolve back into being one of several arms rotated through the bullpen options.