The Mets haven’t done much in the way of making splashy moves this offseason, but one of the team’s objectively good moves was the trade that brought right-handed pitcher Adrian Houser and outfielder Tyrone Taylor to Queens.
In bringing in two players from his old organization in Milwaukee, David Stearns gave the team some depth at a minimal prospect cost: right-handed pitcher Coleman Crow. Landon Marceaux, the other minor league pitcher the Mets got from the Angels alongside Crow when they dealt a struggling Eduardo Escobar to the Angels last June, remains in the organization. Effectively, the Mets turned a half-season of Escobar into those three players in the span of just under six months.