Mets called top trade fit for 'high-end reliever'

As the July 31 trade deadline approaches, a clearer picture is emerging of which teams are likely to become sellers, given their increasingly unlikely chances of contending for playoff positions.

One of these teams is the Minnesota Twins. While they're currently in second place in the AL Central, they hold a 47-49 record heading into the All-Star break, are 11.5 games behind the elite Detroit Tigers, and don't realistically look like a roster that's close to competing for a spot in the playoffs, let alone for a World Series.

The more teams that are sellers at the deadline, the more potential partners the New York Mets will have to make a deal with. And in a July 9 article from The Athletic by writers Tim Britton, Aaron Gleeman, and Chad Jennings, the Mets were listed as one of three top trade fits for Twins reliever Griffin Jax, who they called a "high-end reliever".