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Starling Marte Is the New York Mets' Must-Have Offseason Prize

What's a team to do when the free-agent market doesn't have any fixes for one of said team's biggest offseason needs?

If you're the New York Mets, call up the Pittsburgh Pirates and work out a trade for Starling Marte.

If they want to improve on their respectable 86-76 showing in 2019, the Mets arguably need starting pitchers and relief pitchers above all else. But with Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Marcus Stroman leading their rotation and Edwin Diaz and Jeurys Familia possibly waiting to bounce back in their bullpen, one can just as easily argue they already have the arms they need.