Tom Verducci’s notebook from Day 3 of the winter meetings includes analysis of what the heck the Mets and Red Sox are doing, plus why Xander Bogaerts’s defense isn’t as good as it seems
The Mets right now have 34-year-old Starling Marte in center field. Nobody that old has played 120 games in center field in a decade—since Andres Torres of the Mets in 2012, with an OPS+ of 86. No one that old has played center field that regularly and hit better than league average since 2009 .
Age aside, the signing of Jose Quintana, 34, is a bet that his breakthrough last season is sustainable. Changing his approach, Quintana worked up in the strike zone more than ever. He threw more elevated four-seamers than any lefty in baseball except for Carlos Rodón. Still, the veritable “trade” of two years of Quintana starting at age 34 over four years of Taijuan Walker at age 30 looks like a downgrade in reliability.last season coming off Tommy John surgery.
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