Korner Konfidential — Mets Hot Stove Report: Day 13
Day 13 — Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The GM meetings produced their first real headline, and it is the one this column has been circling for two weeks: the Mets will sit down with Tarik Skubal next week in California. David Stearns spent Tuesday telling the beat exactly where this winter is going — first base and pitching, in that order of urgency, and not second base — while the first significant free-agent signing of the winter landed in Detroit and the Manager of the Year hardware went out in Las Vegas. Still no Mets signing. But the shape of the chase is no longer talk. Sorted, as always, into what's reported and what's just talked about.
🔥 THE BIG BOARD — Reports
Tarik Skubal, dealing for Detroit. Photo: Jeffrey Hyde, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).
The Mets get their Skubal meeting — next week, in California. This is the day's news, and it is concrete: the Mets are scheduled to meet with Tarik Skubal, the prize of this free-agent class, next week in California, a source confirmed to ESPN's Jorge Castillo on Tuesday. Jon Heyman of the Post first reported the meeting. Stearns, speaking at the GM meetings, declined to comment on the pursuit — which is what presidents of baseball operations say when the meeting is real. The field is wider than the two-team race this column has tracked: the Associated Press reports six clubs in all will sit down with Skubal, with the Mets, Dodgers and Padres named and the other three unidentified; Heyman's Wednesday follow-up adds the Toronto Blue Jays to the meeting list, and Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes said Tuesday his club has been in contact with Skubal's camp and expects its own meeting in the coming days. The Post's Tuesday night piece names the wild card plainly: San Diego looks like a big threat, with a gutted rotation and a new front office eager to spend. Heyman's early odds board still favors the Mets — 9-to-5 in his assessment, with the Padres at 4-to-1 and the Dodgers third at 5-to-1 — and the reporting out of Vegas is consistent on two points: Skubal, who turns 30 on November 20, wants a long-term deal (no interest in the short, high-AAV structures the Dodgers prefer), and he wants to sign before the December 1 lockout. The meeting is not a signing. But you cannot sign the ace without getting in the room, and the Mets are in the room.
Sources: ESPN (Castillo) · NY Post · DodgersBeat (Heyman odds)
Stearns lays out the winter: first base and pitching — not second base. Stearns' Tuesday session with the beat was the most informative half-hour of the meetings for Mets fans, and MLB Trade Rumors' wrap (via Anthony DiComo of MLB.com and Chelsea Janes of SNY) plus USA Today's account carry the substance. One: second base is not a target. Marcus Semien, who hit .215/.280/.340 in a career-worst age-35 season and is owed $25 million a year through 2028, 'is going to come in with an opportunity to play a lot of second base,' with Brett Baty — who hit .279/.337/.488 from July 1 on — and the prospect line of Jefferson Rojas (.274/.338/.505 across Double-A and Triple-A at age 21), Émilien Pitre and Mitch Voit behind him. Two: first base will be supplemented. Jared Young (.266/.330/.429 in a career-high 342 plate appearances) 'has the ability to really be part of a solution there,' but Stearns expects to add — a regular or a timeshare partner — and did not rule out a left-handed bat, while confirming Juan Soto stays focused on left field and will not be part of the first-base answer. Three: the rotation gets help, full stop — 'there's no question we're going to add to that group' — through free agency and trades both. Four: Devin Williams is the closer 'right now,' a two-word qualifier the Post flagged as leaving wiggle room. And five, on the December 1 lockout hanging over everything: 'business as usual until they tell us otherwise.' The Polanco experiment at first base — last winter's outside-the-box answer, lost to injury and ineffectiveness — is the cautionary tale this plan is built to avoid repeating.
Sources: MLB Trade Rumors (DiComo / Janes) · USA Today · NY Post
Senga update: the plan is starter — whatever the phone says. Yesterday's new name got its front-office answer Tuesday. Stearns told Mike Puma of the Post and others that the plan is for Kodai Senga to build back up as a starting pitcher when camp opens, and the Post reports Senga himself has told the Mets he wants to start, even though starting is where the last two seasons went sideways. The trade interest reported by The Athletic — multiple clubs asking, in what MLBTR reads as a buy-low posture — has not changed the stated plan, and the numbers explain both sides of the phone calls: an 11.48 ERA over 26⅔ innings in his midseason collapse, then a 3.78 ERA with 22 strikeouts against nine walks in 16⅔ relief innings down the stretch, sitting just under 97 mph. MLBTR's honest caveat: a deal likely requires the Mets to pay down most of the $14 million owed for 2027, and Senga's partial no-trade clause gives him a say. Building up as a starter is also the move that preserves every option — it is far easier to ramp down into relief than the reverse — so read the plan as genuine and the listening as ongoing. Both things can be true, and in November, both usually are.
Sources: MLB Trade Rumors
The lefty-reliever check-ins: Raley, Vesia and Hill. A new, specific piece of bullpen reporting from Will Sammon of The Athletic, carried by NBC Sports and Grand Central Mets: the Mets have checked in on three left-handed relievers — Tim Hill, Alex Vesia and, most notably, Brooks Raley, in what would be a reunion. Raley, 38, was superb for the Mets before the deadline — a 1.96 ERA in 45 appearances — before being traded to Philadelphia, where the second half went the other way (four homers, a 7.94 ERA in 11⅓ innings, left off the Wild Card roster). Vesia is a name this column flagged on Day 1 as a paper fit atop SI's reliever rankings (left-handed hitters managed a .471 OPS against him in 2026); Hill is the veteran ground-ball lefty coming off a 4.60 ERA season, his highest since 2023. Amazin' Avenue adds that the Mets are looking at the top of the free-agent reliever market generally, and that Stearns has interest in bringing back relievers who finished strong in-house — Dedniel Núñez, Daniel Duarte and Nate Lavender among them. Check-ins are the first rung of the ladder, not offers. But the ladder now has names on it.
Morejón wants to stay a reliever — and that matters here. One of the winter's most interesting arms just narrowed his own market in a way that touches the Mets' board. Adrián Morejón prefers to remain a reliever, a person briefed on his market told The Athletic's Will Sammon, Ken Rosenthal and Katie Woo (via MLB Trade Rumors) — despite clubs, the Mets' conversion history with Clay Holmes presumably among the templates, eyeing his four-pitch mix as a starter conversion. Morejón's platform year was dominant in relief: a 2.83 ERA with 107 strikeouts and a 30.4% strikeout rate across a career-high 86 innings setting up in San Diego. He carries San Diego's $23.15 million qualifying offer — answers due November 17 — and MLBTR projects five years and $80 million even as a reliever. For the Mets, the takeaway is simple: if they chase Morejón, they are chasing a very expensive setup man to pair with Williams, at a draft-pick cost — not a two-for-one rotation answer. Price and role are now both on the record.
Sources: MLB Trade Rumors (The Athletic)
Pagán signs — the winter's first significant deal sets a price. The freeze broke Tuesday night, and fittingly it was a name from this column's Tracker: the Tigers agreed with reliever Emilio Pagán on a one-year deal in the $11 million range — $11.5 million plus a bonus clause per Gordon Wittenmyer of the Cincinnati Enquirer — Jon Heyman first reporting it (via MLB Trade Rumors). Pagán, 35, declined his $10 million player option with Cincinnati on October 31 and banks roughly a million more, plus the closer's job in Detroit, where he replaces the departed Kenley Jansen. His 2026 line: 25 saves in 28 chances, a 3.38 ERA in 42⅔ innings, and a second half (1.71 ERA, 18 saves) that sold the deal. MLBTR calls it the first significant move of the free-agent market, and its real value to this column is as a comp: a one-year, $11.5 million closer with a recent track record is the going rate's first data point, three weeks before the lockout. Pagán comes off the Tracker as resolved — he was never linked to the Mets, and now he is not available to be.
Sources: MLB Trade Rumors (Heyman)
Manager of the Year: Murphy makes history, Venable takes the AL. The one verdict still owed from yesterday is in. The BBWAA announced Tuesday night that Milwaukee's Pat Murphy is the National League Manager of the Year for the third straight year — the first manager in either league ever to win it three years running — with 20 of 30 first-place votes and 124 points, ahead of Atlanta's Walt Weiss (seven first-place votes, 86 points) and Philadelphia's Don Mattingly. In the American League, Chicago's Will Venable won with 15 first-place votes and 111 points, edging Tampa Bay's Kevin Cash (98 points) after guiding the White Sox — the first team in history to reach the playoffs after consecutive 100-loss seasons — to an 84–78 record and a postseason berth. Voting was conducted before the postseason, so Murphy's World Series run with the champion Brewers did not factor in. The Mets, as noted yesterday, had no finalist in either league. Awards week rolls on tonight: the Cy Young and the inaugural BBWAA Reliever of the Year winners are announced Wednesday at 7 PM ET on MLB Network — after this edition's press time, so no winner is claimed here — with the MVPs on Thursday, November 12.
Sources: Yardbarker (BBWAA) · NBC Sports (AP)
Housekeeping. The GM meetings wrap Thursday, November 12, in Las Vegas. Still no Mets signing or trade by press time Wednesday — the Skubal meeting next week is the next hard date on the big board. Behind it: Cy Young and Reliever of the Year tonight (Nov 11, 7 PM ET), MVP Thursday (Nov 12), the Arizona Fall League semifinals Friday and the league wrapping November 14, qualifying-offer answers and the Rule 5 protection deadline November 17, the tender deadline November 20, and the December 1 lockout over all of it.
🗣️ THE SPECULATION DESK — Talk, Not News
A Burleson hearing at first base. Rising Apple's Wednesday piece puts a new name in the first-base conversation: Cardinals first baseman Alec Burleson, with the writer saying he has heard Burleson mentioned as a potential Mets trade target. The fit case writes itself — Burleson, about to turn 28, is coming off the best year of his career (.279/.343/.473, an .816 OPS and 131 OPS+, 26 home runs and a major-league-leading 116 RBIs, 3.7 bWAR) with two more years of arbitration control, and Stearns' own Tuesday words — open to a left-handed first baseman if it's the right fit — keep the door the piece walks through propped open. The honest labels: this is a single writer's hearing with no named sourcing and no corroborating report, St. Louis has every reason to keep a controllable 116-RBI bat, and Burleson shares Jared Young's weakness against left-handed pitching, which cuts against the timeshare logic. An intriguing name for the watch list. Nothing more — yet.
Sources: Rising Apple
The second-base argument Stearns just walked into. Rising Apple's other Wednesday argument takes the other side of Stearns' Tuesday declaration: that standing pat at second base — Semien's three-year slide in wRC+ (101, 90, 74), Baty's inconsistency, prospects who are not here yet — is playing with fire at a position where this winter's free-agent class is unusually strong. It is opinion, clearly labeled, and it is the argument half the fan base made on the drive home Tuesday. The reported facts underneath it are Stearns' own: the club is confident, the money owed Semien ($25 million a year through 2028) leaves little practical choice, and Rojas is coming. Whether confidence is a plan or a hope is a March question. Filing the argument where arguments live.
Sources: Rising Apple
Pricing Morejón the Met — a projection, not a pursuit. Sports Illustrated's contract exercise (via Yardbarker) projects what signing Morejón would cost the Mets as a reliever: five years and $105 million at a $21 million average — richer than MLBTR's five-year, $80 million projection — plus, because of the qualifying offer and the Mets' luxury-tax status, their second- and fifth-highest 2027 draft picks and $1 million of international bonus pool money. There is no reporting that the Mets have made Morejón a priority at anything like that price; the exercise is useful only because it prices the top of the relief market the Mets are now confirmed to be shopping in (see the Raley/Vesia/Hill check-ins on the Big Board, at considerably lower price points). Projections are talk. The check-ins are news. Keep them in that order.
Sources: Yardbarker (SI projection)
Beat Tweets
The beat is quiet today. A Wednesday sweep of the 13-handle roster — DiComo, Puma, Sammon, Britton, Martino, Gelbs, Ragazzo, Heyman, Sherman, Goodman, Albanese, Mastracco and Pantorno — produced no news-bearing posts with verifiable status IDs to embed since yesterday's edition. The day's news ran through articles and on-the-record sessions: Heyman's Skubal-meeting report and his Pagán post were quoted across the coverage, Janes' first-base read and DiComo's second-base reporting drove the Stearns items, and Puma carried the Senga plan — all credited on the Big Board. We don't fabricate embeds; when a signing breaks with a verifiable post, this section will carry the iframe itself.
WINTER BALL & FALL LEAGUE WATCH
The stove isn't the only thing still warm. A small army of Mets — big leaguers, top prospects, and a few names only the true sickos know — is playing real baseball right now in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Arizona. This section stays in the Korner all winter, updated as the numbers move, because on the slow news days this IS the baseball. Today's lines are fresh — through Tuesday's games, from Metsmerized's Wednesday recap — and the section runs text-only: no verifiable fresh highlight from games since the last edition surfaced, so there are no embeds, per the house rule.
ARIZONA FALL LEAGUE. Surprise rolled on Tuesday, drubbing Scottsdale 10–2, and three Mets scored runs in it. Cole Mathis — the return in the David Peterson trade — was the only Mets prospect to start: he walked before being lifted, and while the bat sits at .160 with a .622 OPS, his 17 walks are second on the team, which is its own kind of hitting. Off the bench, Boston Baro singled to lift his fall OPS to .707 — the only homegrown Mets hitter in the AFL, making up at-bats lost to injuries the last few seasons — and Bruin Agbayani filled the box score with a hit, a run and an RBI in the Saguaros' six-run third. No Mets pitchers appeared. The calendar is now the story: Surprise plays today, takes Thursday off, and plays a semifinal game Friday, with the league wrapping November 14 — and Irving Cota's Rule 5 case (he is protection-eligible) gets its last evidence this week ahead of the November 17 deadline. (Metsmerized)
PUERTO RICO (LBPRC). Antonio Jimenez continues to be the winter's loudest Met. Fresh off his game-tying grand slam, the middle-infield prospect chipped in two singles and an RBI for San Juan in a 7–4 loss to Santurce, and his Puerto Rico line is now a slash of .500/.571/.748 — a 1.319 OPS — against a .649 regular-season OPS across two levels in 2026. Whatever the hitting lab worked on, it is working. In Ponce's 3–2, 10-inning loss to Mayagüez, three Mets farmhands played: Jacob Reimer was held hitless but still owns a 1.068 OPS in 17 at-bats — Monday he knocked two extra-base hits including a home run — and he slid from third base to first in the ninth inning, a flexibility note worth filing with first base at the top of the big club's shopping list (he played first only 11 times in 2026). John Bay singled and walked Tuesday and sits at a .712 OPS; Eli Serrano III singled and scored one of Ponce's two runs, making up at-bats lost to his litany of injuries. (Metsmerized)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (LIDOM). A quiet Tuesday for Ronny Mauricio in his sixth game for Licey: 0-for-4 with a walk, and his winter OPS sits at .740 (Metsmerized). The supporting detail is the company — Juan Soto and an entourage recently attended a Licey game to cheer Mauricio on. Ofreidy Gómez added two-thirds of a scoreless inning with a strikeout in the latest lines, and Yonatan Henriquez appeared as a defensive replacement at second base. Carried from the last full lines: Jefferson Rojas is 7-for-34 with his two second-game homers for the Gigantes, and Christopher Morel was off to a .200 start with a homer for Águilas. (Metsmerized)
VENEZUELA (LVBP). Luis Torrens' tour of the diamond reached first base on Tuesday — nine innings there for Magallanes, trading in the tools of ignorance — and he singled and scored twice in an 11–0 shellacking (Metsmerized). Torrens has now caught, played right field and played first this winter, which is either versatility or a man auditioning for every roster spot at once. Carried from the last full lines: Francisco Alvarez was 1-for-3 as a DH in his most recent action after his game-winning grand slam earlier this month, and Saul García and Joander Suarez round out the Magallanes Mets on the pitching side. (Metsmerized)
MEXICO (LMP). Marco Vargas went 1-for-5 with a stolen base for Obregón in a 5–4 loss to Hermosillo, and Tuesday he lined up at the hot corner after playing up the middle for Brooklyn and Binghamton in 2026 (Metsmerized) — another infielder collecting positions the way this front office likes them. Carried from the last full lines: Kevin Villavicencio was cooling from his .313 perch for his club, and catcher Alejandro Urías owns the stretch's best Mexico line — 3-for-5 with a double, a steal and three runs scored for Los Mochis. (Metsmerized)
Full winter ball stats for every Mets farmhand, updated weekly, live at Baseball America. If a Met does something down there, you'll read about it here.
📋 RUMOR TRACKER
Tarik Skubal — UPDATE Wed Nov 11: the Mets will MEET with Skubal next week in California (Heyman first; ESPN's Castillo confirms). Six clubs get meetings per AP — Mets, Dodgers, Padres named, Jays added by Heyman, two unnamed; Dodgers GM Gomes expects his meeting in the coming days. Heyman's odds: Mets 9–5 favorites, Padres 4–1, Dodgers 5–1; the Post calls San Diego the wild-card threat. Skubal wants long term (no short high-AAV), wants to sign before Dec 1, turns 30 Nov 20. Janes' Mets shape stands: 7 yrs/$340M, hard stop on years. Status: unsigned — meeting set.
Kodai Senga — UPDATE Wed Nov 11: Stearns (via Puma, Post) — the plan is for Senga to build back up as a STARTER in camp, and Senga has told the Mets he wants to start. Trade interest (The Athletic) is buy-low; a deal likely needs the Mets to eat most of the $14M for 2027; partial no-trade. Status: starter plan stated; listening ongoing; no deal reported.
First base — UPDATE Wed Nov 11: Stearns confirms the Mets will SUPPLEMENT first base — Young is 'part of a solution,' a regular or timeshare add is expected, a left-handed bat is not ruled out, and Soto stays in LF. FA names framed by the Post/MLBTR: Bauers (QO attached), France, Goldschmidt, Bohm, Mountcastle. Status: declared priority; no move reported.
Brooks Raley / Alex Vesia / Tim Hill — NEW Wed Nov 11: the Mets have CHECKED IN on all three left-handed relievers (Sammon, The Athletic). Raley: 1.96 ERA in 45 Mets apps before his deadline trade to Philadelphia (7.94 ERA there). Vesia: Day 1 paper fit, now a reported check-in. Hill: veteran lefty, 4.60 ERA in 2026. Status: check-ins reported; no offers reported.
Emilio Pagán — ✅ RESOLVED Tue Nov 10: signed with the TIGERS — one year, ~$11.5M plus a bonus clause (Heyman; Wittenmyer). The winter's first significant FA signing; Detroit's closer, replacing Jansen. Status: off the board; was never Mets-linked.
David Bednar / Adrián Morejón — UPDATE Wed Nov 11: Morejón prefers to REMAIN A RELIEVER (The Athletic — Sammon/Rosenthal/Woo) despite starter-conversion interest; 2.83 ERA, 107 K in 86 IP; MLBTR projects 5 yrs/$80M as a reliever. Both carry $23.15M qualifying offers — answers due Nov 17; signing either costs the Mets draft picks. Post (Nov 9) named both, plus Raisel Iglesias, in its bullpen inventory. Status: bullpen market, QO clock running.
Devin Williams — UPDATE Wed Nov 11: Stearns calls Williams the closer 'right now' — a qualifier the Post flagged as wiggle room. Sammon reports the Mets are shopping the top of the FA reliever market around him, with interest in retaining Núñez, Duarte and Lavender. Status: closer, conditionally; no club move reported.
Alec Burleson — NEW Wed Nov 11 (Speculation Desk): Rising Apple writer hears the Cardinals' 1B as a potential Mets trade target — .279/.343/.473, 26 HR, MLB-leading 116 RBIs, two years of arb control. No named sourcing, no corroboration. Status: watch-list talk only — no talks reported.
Carson Benge — ✅ RESOLVED Mon Nov 9: finished SECOND in NL Rookie of the Year voting — Stewart (CIN) won with 20 first-place votes/170 pts; Benge 7/107, Wetherholt 99; McLean finished 4th. Stewart's win earns the Reds a PPI draft pick; Benge's second place earns the Mets none. Status: award closed; Benge still holds RF.
Kyren Paris — ✅ RESOLVED Mon Nov 9: cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Syracuse (DiComo via MLBTR). Status: stays as non-roster depth — the gambit worked on Paris.
Christian Cairo — ✅ RESOLVED Mon Nov 9: claimed off waivers by the DODGERS. Status: gone — the one gambit piece the Mets lost.
Robert Stock — One-year Major League split contract; out of options, so any trip to Triple-A requires a DFA and waivers first. Still on the 40-man. Status: depth arm.
Jacob deGrom — Grant (Dallas Morning News) believes the Rangers will shop a highly paid star, deGrom front and center ($37M for 2027, $20M club option for 2028, full no-trade). Status: availability reported; NO Mets talks reported.
Eric Wagaman — Elected free agency per his MLB.com log (MLBTR, Nov 8). Status: free agent; low-cost depth option.
Teruaki Sato — Heyman links Mets/Phillies/Padres/Yankees (via B/R) — against Britton/Sammon's reporting that the Mets are unlikely to splash, with Bichette at 3B and Benge in RF; Stearns' Nov 11 first-base framing (supplement, not splurge) points the same way. Posted Nov 1; window to Dec 1. Status: cooled/downgraded — not closed.
Michael King — Post pricing — expected at least 3 yrs/$80M; San Diego could keep him; Ellis hire gives Mets added insight. Mets met with him last winter. Status: top consolation prize; circle back.
Clay Holmes — Post pricing — pegged at 2–3 yrs, $40–50M after declining his $12M Cubs option. Status: reunion watch, price framed.
Shoki Oda — 18-year-old Japanese RHP (97 mph, fastest ever at Koshien) met with the Mets, Phillies and Rangers; Dodgers considered the favorites; expected $3–5M bonus as an international amateur, signable Jan 15. Status: meeting held — long-term play.
Kaima Taira — Posted Sun Nov 1; Mets among the clubs that scouted him. Status: on the market; negotiations open.
Hiromi Itoh — Posted from Japan (Hokkaido) Sun Nov 1. Status: posting watch — no Mets link reported.
Si Hwan Roh — KBO third baseman posted by Hanwha; 30-day window ends Dec 1 (Sherman). Status: posting watch — no Mets link reported.
Drew Rasmussen — Rays exercised his $20M option — NOT a free agent; Neander reiterates he intends Rasmussen to lead Tampa Bay's 2027 rotation. Status: trade watch at a known $20M price, Rays saying not available.
Nathan Eovaldi — Grant (Dallas Morning News) — Rangers will search for trade partners for Seager and deGrom, and perhaps Eovaldi ($24M owed for 2027; turns 37 in Feb). Status: availability reported; no Mets talks reported.
Michael Soroka — Declined his mutual $10M option with Arizona (9–5, 3.41 ERA in 22 G). Status: veteran-arm tier; no Mets link reported.
Alec Bohm — Free agent since Wed Nov 4; named again in the Nov 11 first-base FA framing. Status: on the market; no fresh Mets link reported.
Sonny Gray / Nick Martinez — Both free as of Fri Oct 30. Status: veteran fallback tier.
Nick Pivetta — Padres declined his $14M club option (Acee). Status: veteran-arm tier; no Mets link reported.
Kenley Jansen — Free agent after Detroit declined his club option; his Detroit closer job now belongs to Pagán. Status: veteran closer on the market; no Mets link reported.
Luis Robert Jr. — Orioles declined his $20M option ($2M buyout). The ex-Met is a free agent. Status: on the market; no reunion reporting.
Dustin May — Free agent: declined his $20M mutual option with Milwaukee. Status: veteran-arm tier; no Mets link reported.
Jeff McNeil — Free agent: the A's declined his option and the Mets cover the $2M buyout. Status: ex-Met on the market; no reunion reporting.
Sean Manaea — Sportsnaut predicted he is the Met dealt before Opening Day; Heavy's Nov 10 Astros construction sends him to Houston in a Walker/Paredes idea (talk only). Status: speculation only — no shopping reported.
Rafael Devers — MLBTR lists him as a trade candidate in San Francisco; the Mets link is an idea piece only. Status: watch, don't believe yet.
Trevor Megill / MacKenzie Gore / Spencer Torkelson — Floated as trade fits by Rising Apple/FanSided; Torkelson also appears on SI's Nov 10 ranked trade-targets list. Note: Megill is an NL Reliever of the Year finalist — winner announced tonight, Nov 11. Status: fits list only — no talks reported.
Jack Anderson / Pierson Ohl — Claimed off waivers Mon Nov 2 (Anderson from Minnesota, Ohl from Colorado). Status: depth arms with options.
Mark Vientos / Francisco Alvarez — Rising Apple (Nov 9) floats Vientos as the realistic GM-meetings trade and Alvarez-for-pitching as the bold one. Status: scenario talk only — no talks reported.
Bo Bichette — ✅ RESOLVED. Opted in for 2027 — see the Korner column, “Bo Knows: 42 Million Reasons.” His return at 3B reshaped the Sato pursuit.
Sandy Alcantara — ✅ OFF THE BOARD: the Marlins exercised his 2027 club option. Status: staying in Miami.
Vidal Bruján — ✅ RESOLVED Sun Nov 1: signed a minor league deal with the Braves, with a spring-training invite.
40-man roster — Gambit closed: Stock on it, Paris outrighted to Syracuse, Cairo claimed by the Dodgers. Next churn: Rule 5 protection deadline Nov 17 — Cota's AFL finish this week could bear on it.
That's the stove for today. Same time tomorrow — if the Mets do something at 11 PM, the Tracker hears about it first.
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