Miami Marlins at New York Mets

Shortly after recording five key outs in the Mets’ 4-2 victory over the Marlins on Thursday at Citi Field, Brooks Raley sat in the dugout and reflected on his four years in the organization. At some point between now and 6 p.m. ET on Monday, Raley knows he will be traded. For an impending free agent pitching for a last-place team, this is not merely a possibility. It is an inevitability. So as Raley sat on the bench, he thought back on the trade that sent him here from the Rays, on the success he enjoyed immediately, on the Tommy John surgery that derailed his career and the recovery that followed. “I’ve had a lot of good moments here, and this place has been great to me and my family,” Raley said. “Enjoyed wearing the blue and orange.” It’s entirely possible that the 79.3 mph sweeper Raley threw to retire Kyle Stowers in the top of the eighth will be his final pitch as a Met. That pitch was the key to Raley’s late-career breakout, which began in 2022 with the Rays at age 34 and continued through four seasons with the Mets. At his best, Raley can deliver his sweeper with more than two feet of horizontal break, making it all but unhittable for left-handed batters. For that reason, Raley is perhaps the top lefty reliever available at this year’s Trade Deadline -- more valuable than A.J. Minter, whom the Mets dealt to the Twins late Thursday night for prospects Bruin Agbayani and Billy Amick, according to a source. The five outs Raley recorded in his fifth win of the season, including a line-drive double play to escape a jam in the seventh, lowered his ERA to 2.01. Over his entire Mets tenure, Raley holds a 2.33 ERA in 148 appearances. “I’ve developed a lot here,” Raley said. “I thought I knew who I was as a player when I came over from Tampa, and this organization embraced me. Obviously \[we\