That's fair. I was referring to going forward, where Manea will be injury prone for the foreseeable future given his new arm angle, while Severino's mechanics are much better. All you need to know is that Manea modeled his new delivery on Chris Sale, who's hurt all the time. It's no surprise that he got hurt less than a year after making the switch.
Nothing like getting rid of a contract to bring on another bad contract. On top of that he’s 2 years older than Nimmo and is clearly declining.
The Semien contract is shorter than Nimmo but $6m more than Nimmo for 2026 and 2027. The last season of Semien is a wash with Nimmo. So the Mets just added $6m higher for the next 2 years.
We just shed 30 mill in payroll over the next 5 years (assuming there is no cash coming from us) and opened up the outfield to add a good defender. Semein is a very good defender…going to assume he’ll be losing a bit with age, though.
Those two years are what made him one of the worst contracts in baseball, though. Thad is no small thing. He would be a DFA candidate by that point.
Like I said I’ll wait to see the rest of the picture. However, going into his age 35 season Semien is a player already showing serious decline. Maybe we deal him after a year or two. Don’t see this trade moving the needle one way or the other. Maybe financially long term.
Well if signing Bellinger or Tucker or someone like that then it’s an upgrade. That remains to be seen. Going to be an interesting off-season.
+100
Semein won a gold glove this year at an up-the-middle position. That makes us a better defensive team. If we move Soto to left field and get a big-time two-way right fielder, we become even better defensively.
