Mets general manager Billy Eppler isn’t about to second-guess the conservative approach he took at the trade deadline.
The team added Daniel Vogelbach, Tyler Naquin, Darin Ruf and Mychal Givens before Aug. 2 without surrendering top prospects. Vogelbach gave the team a needed lefty presence at the plate, but Ruf and Naquin, in particular, were disappointments.
“No regrets,” Eppler said Friday. “We had a process. We had a good group of people in the room. A good group of people we were consulting with. I think from Vogelbach’s perspective it was pretty good. I would be curious if you could point out somebody who outhit him who was traded or how many of the guys [on the market] who weren’t traded, if they outhit him from that point forward. And we did it without robbing the future in a significant way.
“It’s hard to pinpoint what would have been better. You’re dealing in a really short sample [size] so I don’t have any regrets on it. We improved our run scoring from that moment when we acquired [Vogelbach]. Our runs per game was higher, ultimately just in sequencing and how things play out, it didn’t fall our way at the end.” Billy Eppler outlines Mets’ offseason goals: Using money as a ‘bridge’
In 55 games, Vogelbach had a .255/.393/.436 slash line with six homers and 25 RBIs for the Mets. Possibilities from the right side at the trade deadline included J.D. Martinez and Willson Contreras . The Mets also passed on David Robertson, who went from the Cubs to Phillies, and dealt for Givens, who was respectable for the Mets down the stretch after a rough first outing with the club that inflated his ERA.
Ruf, who was acquired in a trade that sent J.D. Davis and three minor leaguers to the Giants, was by far the biggest disappointment. The veteran outfielder owned a .152/.216/.197 slash line with the Mets. Naquin also was subpar, posting a .203/.246/.390 slash line. Davis went .263/.361/.496 with San Francisco after going .238/.324/.359 with the Mets. “You evaluate it right at that time,” Eppler said.
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