With barely a week until the Aug. 3 Trade Deadline, scouts were trawling around Citi Field on Sunday, hoping to sharpen their evaluations of Mets players before what will potentially be one of the more comprehensive sell-offs in franchise history. Those scouts were not disappointed, as Freddy Peralta, Tyrone Taylor and others gave them plenty of information to tap into their tablets during an 8-3 Mets win over the Dodgers. Peralta struggled again, needing 93 pitches to complete four innings, but Taylor hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the sixth to lead the Mets to victory. “It’s not easy to not think about it,” Peralta said of the Deadline. "But at the end of the day, it’s business.” Cionel Pérez, Brooks Raley and Luke Weaver, three other trade candidates, combined on four scoreless innings following Peralta to the mound, before Devin Williams navigated the ninth. It’s that time of year when little changes matter. With that in mind, here’s a look at several Mets trade candidates whose stock is shifting heading into the final week before the Deadline.
How the bets landed
Moneyline favoriteLAD -147 · 58% to win
Upset
Run LineLAD -1.5
NYM covered
TotalO/U 8.5 · 11 scored
Over
Against the consensus line at the start, across 16 books