Players from each non-contender that the Colorado Rockies should look at

The New York Mets

The New York Mets are 27-28, which is good enough for 4th place in the NL East. Considering that they have three teams ahead of them and all of the injuries that they have (they have 13 players on the disabled list), I think that they will eventually be sellers.

One piece that the Rockies could trade for is first baseman Adrian Gonzalez. My colleague Kevin Henry spoke in December about how Gonzalez could be a fit for the Rockies but, obviously, that never came to fruition.

He signed with the Mets and has done a nice job in bouncing back from his down year in 2017. On the year, in 47 games, he has a .260/325/.411 slash line with 6 home runs and 26 RBI and an OPS+ of 104. It’s not lighting the world on fire but he is playing slightly above MLB average, which is a vast improvement over what the Rockies have seen at first base.

In addition, as mentioned in Kevin’s article from December, in 88 career games at Coors, Gonzalez has posted a .307/.380/.539 line with an OPS of .918.

He also has 34 games of postseason experience in which he had a slash of .266/.329/.453 with 7 home runs and 21 RBI.

He is getting paid a boatload for the season, $22.357 million to be exact, but the Mets are only on the hook for just the league minimum of that salary as the Braves are paying the rest of it because they DFA’d him in December as soon as they acquired him from the Dodgers.

Another potential option for the Rockies is Jose Bautista, as he has done well in a Mets uniform (161 OPS+) in 11 games. Both Gonzalez and Bautista would not require much to get in a trade since they are both free agents at the end of the season.