{"id":76440,"date":"2024-06-11T16:11:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=76440"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:11:50","slug":"mets-luis-severino-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/11\/mets-luis-severino-trade-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Talks Continue to Heat Up for Ex-Yankee Ahead of Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s just a matter of when the New York Mets will begin unloading talent and Luis Severino<\/a> will be a big name at the deadline. While the Mets haven\u2019t started shopping their top talent when they do, they’ll be in the \u201ccenter of a lot.\u201d<\/a> One player insiders say rival teams are especially interested in is 30-year-old right-hander Luis Severino.<\/p>\n

After eight seasons with the New York Yankees, Severino signed a one-year, $13 million deal<\/a> with the Mets this past November. Severino was once one of the top pitchers in the American League before injuries threatened to derail his career. But now that the right-hander is healthy, he has been able to turn things around with the Mets. Severino has a 3.25 ERA over 12 starts allowing five homers while striking out 58 through 72 innings.<\/p>\n

The two-time All-Star spent the offseason refining a sinker and adding a sweeper to what is now a six-pitch arsenal. With his 51.0% ground ball rate, Severino is forcing more ground balls this year than he did from 2018-23. Now that he is starting to rebound, Severino is likely to be a \u201cbig name\u201d at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Luis Severino is Turning into a ‘Likely’ Trade Candidate<\/h3>\n

While he\u2019s not the strikeout artist that he used to be, Severino is one of the best-starting pitchers available. Severino has been throwing well and, at a $13 million salary, would cost barely $4 million for the final two months.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN’s<\/em> Buster Olney<\/a>, one team that has been linked to Severino trade rumors is the New York Yankees. Having spent his entire career in New York, his big-market and playoff experience would give the Yankees a major boost. New York is playing like a World Series contender and despite being without ace Gerrit Cole<\/a>, their starting rotation has been one of baseball\u2019s best.<\/p>\n

While Cole could return as soon as next month, injuries have been problematic for the Yankees in recent years. The Yankees were recently linked<\/a> to Marlins left-hander Jes\u00fas Luzardo<\/a> as an extra layer of pitching depth for the postseason. But with the Marlins seeking a big prospect package, Olney believes a Yankees-Severino reunion is \u201cpossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/em><\/span><\/a> suggests the veteran right-hander is also drawing interest from teams in need of starting-pitching depth like the Milwaukee Brewers and the Baltimore Orioles. Both teams have experienced a recent surge of injuries in their starting rotation and have emerged as strong postseason contenders. Severino, a valuable rotation addition, isn’t the type of player that would break the bank to acquire.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the Mets decide to unload talent, the veteran right-hander will be a sought-after player as the deadline approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n

Main Photo: \u00a9 Ed Szczepanski-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s just a matter of when the New York Mets will begin unloading talent and Luis Severino will be a big name at the deadline. While the Mets haven\u2019t started shopping their top talent when they do, they’ll be in the \u201ccenter of a lot.\u201d One player insiders say rival teams are especially interested in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":76463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1071,22],"tags":[258,3425,71,507,41],"class_list":["post-76440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mlb","category-mets","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-jesus-luzardo","tag-miami-marlins","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-new-york-yankees"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}