Team owner Steve Cohen addressed the moves Wednesday, explaining he was addressing needs. Cohen said trading Scherzer to the Texas Rangers and Verlander back to the Houston Astros was about playing the postseason odds. And other teams were getting better, so you have to take the odds down from that," Cohen said. We weren’t just going to do deals for the sake of doing deals. The Mets are 19.5 out of first place in the National League East and seven games out of the wild-card spot.

Source: Fox News August 03, 2023 15:30 UTC