With the trade deadline less than three days away, it’s time to take a deeper dive into individual players the Mets have been linked to. After reports that the Mets checked in on right-handed starters Dylan Cease and Sandy Alcantara, Buster Olney said during last night’s ESPN broadcast that the team is looking to add a top-of-the-rotation starter such as Joe Ryan or the topic of today’s profile: Merrill Kelly.
At 36 years old, Kelly currently holds a 3.22 ERA over 128.2 IP with the Diamondbacks this season. Excluding one disastrous, torpedo-bat-traumatizing outing against the Yankees in early April, that mark would be down to 2.