The dominoes are falling for the Mets ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline with Mark Canha being the latest to fall.
The Mets traded the outfielder to the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday afternoon, the team announced. The Brewers sent right-handed starter Justin Jarvis in return, a 23-year-old pitcher who was selected in the fifth round of the 2018 draft.
Jarvis is 6-6 with a 4.33 ERA in 17 starts between Double-A and Triple-A this season.
The club is using this trade deadline to get younger and deepen their farm system at several levels. The Mets haven’t developed any frontline starters in recent years and don’t have many top pitching prospects at the higher levels of the system. Jarvis, the 30th-ranked prospect in the Brewers’ system, gives them one.
Jarvis was recently promoted to Triple-A and struggled in his first few starts, but some talent evaluators tend to think of this as a positive. The thinking is that adversity at a higher level will make them better in the long run. Mike Vasil is the only highly-rated pitching prospect in Triple-A Syracuse.
Jarvis is listed at 6-2, 183-pounds and he gets bats swinging with a mid-90s fastball and a looping curveball. He also throws a slider and recently added a splitter. He throws his fastball from a high arm slot and drops it a little for offspeed offerings to add some deceptiveness.
Canha was signed as a free agent during the 2021-22 offseason after spending the entirety of his big league career with the Oakland A’s. The Mets brought him in a two-year contract with a club option for 2024.
He didn’t quite produce the way he had hoped, especially this season. He’s slashing .245/.343/.381 with a .725 OPS and six home runs. However, the 34-year-old Bay Area native is still a solid defender who can play all three outfield positions and has the versatility to play both corner infield positions if needed as well. He recently recorded three outfield assists during a game against the Boston Red Sox.
The Mets are paying down the remainder of his salary. Under Steve Cohen’s ownership, the Mets have shown a willingness to eat salary in order to acquire prospects. They did this last month with Eduardo Escobar and earlier this week with Max Scherzer.
The deadline is set for 6 p.m., ET, Tuesday. The Mets are expected to trade outfielder Tommy Pham and possibly right-hander Justin Verlander before they begin a three-game series in Kansas City against the Royals, which kicks off two hour after the deadline passes.
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