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Mets center fielder Tyrone Taylor hits a three-run home run to give the Mets the lead in the sixth inning at Citi Field in the Queens, New York, USA, Sunday, July 26, 2026. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\nTyrone Taylor continues to drive up his trade value.<\/p>\n
The center fielder crushed a three-run homer against Dodgers right-hander Evan Phillips on Sunday and has quietly been on a tear since returning from the IL late last month.<\/p>\n
In that 18-game span, Taylor has produced a 1.327 OPS as he\u2019s put a tough spring and a right hip flexor strain behind him.<\/p>\n
Mets center fielder Tyrone Taylor hits a three-run home run to give the Mets the lead in the sixth inning at Citi Field in the Queens, New York, USA, Sunday, July 26, 2026. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of belief, swinging with aggression, swinging with intent to do damage, not letting a bad swing impact his next swing,\u201d interim manager Andy Green said of Taylor\u2019s recent stretch. \u201cIt\u2019s been fun to watch him\u2026 the next couple days against lefties too. So he\u2019s earned obviously more playing time, and he\u2019s been huge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the Mets at 44-62 despite Sunday\u2019s 8-3 win, it seems a good bet that they\u2019ll cash in on the in-form 32-year-old. The career .237 hitter indicated he hadn\u2019t made any drastic changes since coming off the IL.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing too crazy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Amid the mounting trade chatter, though, Taylor said that he was not thinking about the trade deadline and is instead trying to remain \u201cpresent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Green echoed the sentiment despite the possibility that his roster may look quite a bit different in the coming days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re here today, we played to win a baseball game,\u201d Green said. \u201cWe\u2019ll do the same thing tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor\u2019s bomb against LA was his fifth home run of the month, and there is plenty for prospective trade partners to like about him. <\/p>\n
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Tyrone Taylor celebrates with Luis Robert Jr. after he scores on his three-run home run to give the Mets the lead in the sixth inning at Citi Field. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n
His reliable glove in the outfield has been coupled with his domination of lefty pitchers this season, to the tune of a .292\/.303\/.569 slash line with 11 RBIs. He also started the bulk of games for the 2024 Mets team that made it to the NLCS.<\/p>\n
Sunday may have been one of his final games for the Mets, but he\u2019s certainly made it an easy sales pitch for David Stearns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrone Taylor continues to drive up his trade value. The center fielder crushed a three-run homer against Dodgers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,3449,1690,61,2548,4203,185],"class_list":["post-762453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116989746642297532","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762453","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=762453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}