5 NY Mets trade deadline predictions 1.0: Clay Holmes' fate, surprises, Francisco Lindor

The MLB trade deadline gets pushed back to August 3rd this year. On a Monday between a home series vs. the Miami Marlins and before taking a trip on the road to face the Cleveland Guardians, this will be the final day for David Stearns to try to restock the farm system.

No Mets fan should be in denial about this outcome. There is no salvaging the season. The trade deadline is coming and these are five predictions for what we can expect.

Five Mets trade deadline predictions

1) The Mets don’t trade Clay Holmes

The Mets will find a way to trade just about everyone even if the return isn’t great for guys like Tyrone Taylor. One of the more hotly debated trade candidates in the coming days will be Clay Holmes who’ll end up staying put. Holmes recently discussed his desire to work out an extension. While I’m not sure anything gets complete, the Mets can rip out the premise of giving him the qualifying offer and getting rewarded with draft pick compensation if he signs elsewhere. Knowing this, Holmes might just take a contract offer from the Mets first before going into an uncertain offseason. In either case, we do get to see Holmes pitch through the end of the year.

2) Huascar Brazoban is the player under contract they trade

The Mets brilliantly stole Huascar Brazoban from the Miami Marlins at the 2024 trade deadline. In 2026, they send him somewhere else. His age, already 36, is enough to convince the Mets to trade him to a bullpen-needy ball club. The Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Tampa Bay Rays are three clubs that immediately come to mind. Luke Weaver trade rumors will be hot and heavy, but he ends up staying put because the Mets have another blown save from Devin Williams in the coming days.

3) The Mets add a depth reliever in a completely unrelated trade

It’s not going to just be selling. The Mets will make some weird trade to actually add. They’ve done it before with AJ Ramos in 2017. Joel Youngblood came to the Mets in the same Midnight Massacre that sent out Tom Seaver. Expect it to be someone who requires a Google search and after you study up you say “Oh, that makes sense.”

4) Tobias Myers is an unplanned player we see traded

The Mets won’t get much in exchange for Tobias Myers, but the alternatives with him aren’t so pretty either. His final minor league option is getting used up this year which means next season he’ll either need to be on the MLB roster or DFA’d. Right now, while teams could stash him in the minor leagues and maybe fix him, there’s value. Otherwise he becomes an offseason non-tender candidate. Going back to the Milwaukee Brewers or to the Cleveland Guardians where he was once traded for Junior Caminero could make sense even if he never gets into a major league game for anyone else this season.

5) We get legitimate Francisco Lindor trade rumors leading up to the deadline

The Mets aren’t going to trade Francisco Lindor. However, there are going to be some real rumors about teams discussing him. It’ll include obvious candidates like the San Diego Padres as well as some surprising teams like the Toronto Blue Jays. Nothing will come of it. This will just be another chapter in a saga with no end in sight about his place within the organization and relationship with Juan Soto.

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