The Mets transformed their bullpen and added a starting center fielder without touching those who MLB Pipeline regards as their seven best prospects.
The trade deadline became a positive reflection on the depth of the club’s farm system, which could be used to improve the team — with four useful, if all impending free agent, players — without losing the higher-upside prospects.
“I think the story of this deadline for us is really an amateur-talent-acquisition and player-development story,” president of baseball operations David Stearns said over Zoom after Thursday’s deadline. “Our amateur talent acquisition departments and our player-development group put us in position to be able to have this type of deadline — where we’re able to go out, acquire players that we think are really going to help us at the major league level, and not touch some really high-upside players at the top of our system.”
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