The day after the Mets rejected the San Diego Padres’ overtures to fabricate Dom Smith for Chris Paddack, Emilio Pagan, Eric Hosmer and money, the Mets remain motivated by the identical trouble that led them to entertain that concept: A trouble about rotation depth after the injuries to Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer.

In consequence, the team is restful engaged in conversations, every interior and with heaps of golf equipment, about how to address the trouble.

Listed below are just a few notes:

— In keeping with a rival standard supervisor, the Oakland Athletics remain in full of life conversations buying and selling starter Sean Manaea. Manaea — whose title autocorrects on my cellphone as Minaya in honor of the mountainous Omar — is decided to turn into a free agent this Twelve months.

As of Sunday morning, there turned into nothing hot between the Mets and A’s on Manaea, per sources. The Athletics would wind up buying and selling Manaea to the San Diego Padres.

— The Yankees, too, have been shopping for starting up pitching this spring. In keeping with a source with dispute data, the Yanks proposed a Luke Voit for Paddack replace final month, which the Padres rejected. The eventual replace brought pitching prospect Justin Lange to the Yankees.

— Within the Mets on Saturday, dialogue revolved round whether or now not Paddack had a serviceable third pitch. Many evaluators saw Paddack as a fastball/changeup guy, with a curveball that, per one scout, graded as a 30 on the 20-80 scouting scale.

But that analysis turned into now not unanimous. The Mets scouted Paddack this spring and discovered the curveball to be a median pitch. This debate shaped an element of the larger dialogue about whether or now not the replace turned into rate making.