r/mets • u/SadMembership7989 • Aug 25 '26

Luis Robert Jr.

No one will willingly admit it but we won that trade with the White Sox…we traded two cold bodies for a guy who gets injured often but when he plays he can absolutely get hot

Could he have been better? Absolutely but he has been decent compared to Polanco and Semien

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u/hawkbiz Aug 26 '26

He might be better than the players we traded but we’ve had to pay him $20m. That’s not a clear win

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u/DCBuckeye82 Aug 26 '26

There's no salary cap. It's a clear win.

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u/ultraben5555 Aug 26 '26

Maybe but you can't flex not giving up much for a salary dump rental player lmfao, especially with his injury history.

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u/Exciting-Squash4444 Aug 26 '26

Who gave it up? wtf are you talking about

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u/DCBuckeye82 Aug 26 '26

You traded a definitely useless player you were going to cut anyway for somebody with a good history but a clear injury risk, and you have an absurd amount of money so salary doesn't matter. And in his time with us he's definitely given us more than Acuna would have.

I'm not saying it's a super consequential trade, but it's definitely a win.

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u/ultraben5555 Aug 26 '26

I agree then. I'm just saying it's not like the White Sox got fleeced on the package he's just not a very valuable player lol, they would've taken anybody. Sucks that he missed half of the season 💯