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That's certainly a possibility.

As stated in the article, this is more of a think piece than an actual proposal. CBP would be a better park for Nimmo and having his contract end a year earlier makes this an interesting idea.
I agree with your sentiment. However, many readers of my blog feel differently and this was an article for them.
Stearns is much-more likely to give the 3-year deal it will likely take to get Schwarber than the 5-plus it will take to get Alonso.
I'm very glad that you read the article and I'm happy to talk about the Mets. But you haven't said one thing that either refutes the article's premise or that I didn't know before I wrote the piece.
So long as you ignore the 2024 injuries to:

Peterson, Senga, Kranick, Reid-Foley, Megill, Smith, Diaz, Raley, Garrett, Nunez, Blackburn and Scott. Even if you limit to SP, there's still 5 of them and they all missed significant time. See the '25 Phils if you want to see a team with good luck.
If you're only going to consider pitchers who've never been injured, you're going to have a very small pool from which to choose. Montas had been healthy in 3 of his previous 4 years and Senga was very durable while in Japan and pitched a full year in 2023.
Yep, all of that was said in the article
Megill was supposed to be a depth starter in the minors but got forced into the Opening Day rotation due to injuries. How many depth starters have a 4.56 ERA, Megill's lifetime mark heading into the season?
Montas threw 150.2, 144.1 and 187 IP. He threw 38.2 innings last year.
Eight of his nine seasons in the majors, Manaea avoided the IL.
Megill has been a consistent 25 starts per year in the majors and minors.
Senga made 20+ starts a year in Japan and made 29 starts in '24. They're plenty durable
Since July 21, Alvarez has a .286/.370/.598 line, which is a 169 wRC+. In just 38 games, Alvarez has amassed 1.5 fWAR, which if extrapolated out to a normal catcher’s workload would be in the 5-WAR territory.

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Francisco Alvarez channels Mike Piazza with his play since returning from demotion
Right now, the Mets’ quest to make the playoffs overshadows most everything.
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McLean is 4-1 with a 1.27 ERA. He’s got a 3.29 K/BB ratio, with 46 Ks in 42.2 IP. McLean has a 1.4 fWAR and a 2.1 rWAR, his rWAR is higher due to the use of runs allowed as the base pitching input, compared to fWAR using FIP.

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How the Mets' massive pitching injuries and under-performance led to Nolan McLean
A top-heavy starting rotation led the 2024 Mets to receive 892.2 IP from their starters, good for fifth in the majors.
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From 8/10-9/2, the Mets scored 165 runs in 22 games and won by scores of 12-7, 19-9 and 10-8. They averaged 7.5 runs per game in that span and they’ll need something similar here down the stretch.

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A hot August masks the Mets' hitting woes
The team had a .369 AVG with runners in scoring position in a 30-game span
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And that's absolutely no problem with the Mets, as that injury exception includes players on the 60-day IL, too, so long as they've spent 60 days inactive. Christian Scott, Drew Smith, A.J. Minter, Danny Young, Griffin Canning, Max Kranick and Dedniel Nunez all qualify.
Actual results – Soto has a 4.71 WPA, the best mark on the Mets and well above Pete Alonso’s 3.38 WPA, the second-best mark on the team. Also, RE24, with Soto having a 46.71 mark compared to Alonso’s 25.34 in the category.

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Juan Soto and looking for reasons to be upset
Since the beginning of August, Juan Soto has 12 HR and 12 SB, giving him 37 homers and 27 steals on the season.
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Oh, man, it sure has been weird. The Mets could win the World Series or they could fail to make the playoffs and neither one would surprise me at this point.
I'm just a guy who watches the games and looks at the stats.
Manaea appeared in 6 games in the minors and made 5 starts. He's appeared in 9 games in the majors and made 8 starts. That's 13 starts - more than enough to be able to consistently go deep into games. He's just not doing that.