{"id":646,"date":"2015-07-30T21:42:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2019-06-26T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:52:12","slug":"the-mets-have-had-a-disastrous-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"The Mets Have Had a Disastrous 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night, the New York Mets played a home game against the San Diego Padres. \u00a0They came into the night one game back of the division-leading Washington Nationals, and a win coupled with a Washington loss would put the Amazins in a tie for first place (the Nationals won). \u00a0However, the game would become so much more, as the result of a Mets trade attempt and its consequences.<\/p>\n

Joel Sherman of the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0first reported the story<\/a>, and later gave us the full details of the deal, pending medicals:<\/p>\n

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#Mets<\/a> gave up Zack Wheeler and Wilmer Flores for Gomez #Brewers<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) July 30, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wheeler is a highly touted pitcher who has only tossed the equivalent of a season and a half at the big league level. \u00a0You may remember that he\u00a0was acquired by the Mets in 2011 in a trade that sent Carlos Beltran to the San Francisco Giants. \u00a0Flores is in his ninth year in the Mets organization and his third year in the bigs. \u00a0This season, he’s started at both shortstop and second base and hit .249 with ten home runs in the process \u00a0He was also the starting shortstop in last night’s game. \u00a0Both would have been heading to Milwaukee in the trade. Would have.<\/p>\n

News of the trade broke around 9:00 Eastern Time last night. \u00a0The Met-Padre game was going long, with starter Bartolo Colon getting shelled for six runs and ten hits in just 2.1 innings. \u00a0As best I remember, the news must have broke in the fifth or sixth inning. (True story: I was at the game. \u00a0It has nothing to do with this post, but it was a truly bizarre event to attend.) \u00a0But back to the story.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, Flores was not pulled from the game when the trade became news. \u00a0Common practice in a situation like this is to pull the player(s) involved. \u00a0This is done to ensure that said player(s) do(es) not get injured, which would lead to a flunked physical and a called-off deal. \u00a0In any event, Flores was left in the game and became visibly emotional in the field. \u00a0Still, I feel the need to defend Flores here: the Mets have been the only organization he has ever known (he was drafted by them as a 16-year-old) and he’s been with them, and stayed loyal to them, through the ups and downs that being a player in the post-2006 Met organization brings.<\/p>\n

However, he would get an at bat in the bottom of the 7th.\u00a0 Word of the deal had filtered through the ballpark by that point, and the thinned out gathering at Citi Field gave him an elongated standing ovation as he stepped to the dish.<\/p>\n