If teams think they can fix Freddy Peralta, maybe this NY Mets player has PTBNL value

Are the New York Mets to blame for how Freddy Peralta has pitched this season? Considering how well David Peterson has done with the Chicago Cubs, they can’t deny all culpability.

The thinking that maybe other teams can get more of the Milwaukee Brewers version out of Peralta, including those same Brewers, can help the Mets fetch more than the numbers say they could for Peralta before next week’s trade deadline. Could there be another player who falls into the same category?

With a brutal 6.26 ERA, Tobias Myers did indeed become “the other guy” in the trade for Peralta. The Mets have used him sparingly in recent weeks and with his final minor league option exhausted this season, he’s already an offseason non-tender candidate. All he’d get with them next year is a spring training chance to compete. For something as minimal as a Player To Be Named Later, the Mets should look to move him.

Tobias Myers hasn’t worked with the Mets in 2026 and they should probably just trade him for the bare minimum

Myers actually began the year strong. He had a 2.33 ERA entering May with batters hitting .177 against him. A bad May and even worse June have essentially kept him in the minors outside of two random appearances in July. He wasn’t much better.

For Myers, this might have been a case of misusage. He started in the spring then was asked to move into a longman role in the bullpen alongside Sean Manaea. Myers didn’t have a distinctive role. He was often entering in the sixth inning and asked to go as long as possible. Neither a high-leverage or mop-up guy, he was kind of just there to eat innings and gobble them up he did.

The undefined role might help explain a little as to why Myers was so inefficient. It’s not completely the Mets’ fault. He should have stepped up. A 3.55 ERA campaign last year with the Brewers and even better 3.00 ERA in 2024 while used mostly as a starter, he had the numbers to justify some trust.

It hasn’t gone so well in the minors with Myers recently getting a start for Syracuse and allowing 5 runs in 1.2 innings. This starting thing isn’t working out. What about a more specific, unchanging role?

Nobody may have a more fascinating trade history than Myers. He was traded for the first overall pick from the 2008 draft Tim Beckham and later for Junior Caminero in an absolute fleecing by the Tampa Bay Rays. Other trades, waiver claims, and even sold for cash are on his personal transaction log, too.

Contenders will need innings from all sorts of sources. Worth little more than a random prospect and maybe even one with a ceiling you’d have to duck to fit inside of, Myers is someone to shop now and get anything you can. The story is different with minor league options available next year. They won’t be and rather than lose him for nothing, make your best pitch that his league minimum salary is good enough to try and figure out.

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