{"id":729967,"date":"2026-06-19T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/729967\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:51:14","slug":"huascar-brazoban-might-be-david-stearns-best-mets-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/729967\/","title":{"rendered":"Huascar Brazob\u00e1n might be David Stearns&#8217; best Mets trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trade barely registered with Mets fans.<\/p>\n<p>This was two years ago on July 30, when Huascar Brazob\u00e1n arrived from the Marlins in exchange for minor league infielder Wilfredo Lara. At that point, Brazob\u00e1n was a 34-year-old reliever who had enjoyed a few nice seasons in Miami, but wasn\u2019t deemed special.<\/p>\n<p>Now an indispensable piece of the Mets bullpen, the right-hander stands among the best trade acquisitions of president of baseball operations David Stearns\u2019 three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Brazob\u00e1n owns a 1.91 ERA in 32 appearances this season after recording a scoreless inning in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/18\/sports\/juan-sotos-two-home-runs-propel-mets-past-phillies-for-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday\u2019s win in Philadelphia<\/a>. He\u2019s joined Luke Weaver to give the Mets a superb 1-2 combo in the setup role leading into closer Devin Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trade barely registered with Mets fans. This was two years ago on July 30, when Huascar Brazob\u00e1n&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,6125,107,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,1274,185,428,117],"class_list":["post-729967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-inside-the-mets","tag-luke-weaver","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-zack-wheeler"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116776395300307702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}