Evaluators Now Believe Mets Looking to Trade Edwin Diaz and Red Sox Pushing Hardest for Deal

Now that the Mets are in full-on monster mode (You know monsters, right? Those evil things that make no sense?), it's all systems go, trade-wise.

They've added Marcus Stroman, even though most think they can't win now. They've dealt Jason Vargas within the division, for reasons unknown.

Now, we've got the final piece: dealing Edwin Diaz, a player they specifically added this offseason at an extremely high cost, just to win now?! Yes, rival evaluators believe this will go down in the next two days, and Boston is the favorite to pull it off.

Some rival evaluators now believe the Mets are going to trade closer Edwin Diaz before the July 31 deadline, and the Red Sox are viewed as the suitors most invested in the chase.
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) July 29, 2019

The Mets have former Sox executive Allard Baird in a position of power, and know their farm system well. That begs the question, though: Shouldn't they then also know that there's no one in the Boston farm system as good as Jarred Kelenic, the man they traded away for Diaz a few months back?

Whatever. The Mets don't run on logic, and the Sox surely believe they can coax the elite closer mentality back out of Diaz, telling him to bury more sliders and using their advanced analytics to remake his sterling strikeout totals (61 in 40 innings pitched) into something more viable than a 4.95 ERA.

Sidenote, shoutout to Dave Dombrowski's "Don't Get a Closer and Just Wait for a Team That Just Traded for a Closer to Give Up on Him Four Months Later" strategy, that's a normal thing that always happens
— Adam Weinrib (@AdamWeinrib) July 29, 2019

Makes all the sense in the world for Boston. Makes all the sense in the world for the Mets to sell high on him. But this...isn't high.