{"id":42671,"date":"2025-03-20T06:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T06:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=42671"},"modified":"2025-03-20T06:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T06:58:16","slug":"trade-rumors-mets-could-make-league-altering-trade-for-108m-padres-starter-before-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=42671","title":{"rendered":"TRADE RUMORS: Mets Could Make League-Altering Trade for $108M Padres Starter Before Trade Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets will be without Sean Manaea and Frankie Montas to start the season. Although both are expected to return, the Mets may still want to strengthen their starting rotation.\u00a0CBS Sports&#8217; Mike Axisa named\u00a0San Diego Padres starter Dylan Cease as an early candidate to be traded before the trade deadline. He also named the Mets as a potential suitor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just about every Padre who is making real money and doesn&#8217;t have a no-trade clause has been mentioned in trade rumors the last few months, including Cease,&#8221; wrote Axisa. &#8220;Normally I would say San Diego will have to fall out of the race for a trade to become a real possibility, though I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s the case here. Money is obviously tight &#8212; you only need to look at how Michael King&#8217;s and Nick Pivetta&#8217;s contracts are structured to see that &#8212; and Cease will make a healthy $13.75 million in 2025, his final year of team control. Is there an avenue for the Padres to trade Cease for multiple younger and cheaper players? Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"imageBox\">\n<div class=\"innerBox ar23-innerBox\"><picture class=\"mapping-embed\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.webp?w=790&amp;f=f173802ae5d44b4be6471271f27698aa 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.jpg?w=790&amp;f=f173802ae5d44b4be6471271f27698aa 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.webp?w=900&amp;f=ba5c09f3bb0a80780722cf656e0b2598 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.jpg?w=900&amp;f=ba5c09f3bb0a80780722cf656e0b2598 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.webp?w=790&amp;f=f173802ae5d44b4be6471271f27698aa 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.jpg?w=790&amp;f=f173802ae5d44b4be6471271f27698aa 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.webp?w=450&amp;f=48abaf9e1a6e25fec60d3c6f75f3c0a1 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.jpg?w=450&amp;f=48abaf9e1a6e25fec60d3c6f75f3c0a1 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.webp?w=1200&amp;f=59e901f76cf22f8646873502a3eccda6\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i2610823\" class=\"mapping-embed imgPhoto\" src=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2610823\/san-diego-padres-pitcher-dylan-cease.jpg?w=1200&amp;f=59e901f76cf22f8646873502a3eccda6\" alt=\"San Diego Padres, pitcher, Dylan Cease\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption ar23-caption\"><span id=\"short-cap-description\" class=\"cap\">SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA &#8211; OCTOBER 09: Dylan Cease #84 of the San Diego Padres after giving up a home run against the Mookie Betts #50 of the Los Angeles Dodgers during Game Four of the&#8230;<\/span>\u00a0<button id=\"read-more-cap\">More<\/button>\u00a0<span class=\"credit ar23-credit\">Sean M. Haffey\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even with Manaea and Montas healthy, the Mets starting rotation is nowhere near as strong as the one belonging to their biggest threat in the National League, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Cease is a Cy Young Award caliber pitcher, finishing top five in voting twice in his career. Last season he finished fourth in the NL Cy Young Award voting with a 3.47 ERA and 224 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Cease has made 30-plus starts in each of the last four seasons and would instantly be the best pitcher on the Mets staff. He has a 3.40 ERA over the last four seasons and finished as the American League Cy Young Award runner-up in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He will be a free agent after the season and the Padres may look to stretch their time with him as long as they can, but, whether it&#8217;s now or in the summer, Cease will demand a decent package to acquire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Mets will be without Sean Manaea and Frankie Montas to start the season. 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