Rafiki give me an in depth summary of this article:
https://nypost.com/2026/04/28/sports/anthony-nunez-dominating-after-mets-traded-him-to-orioles/
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Rafiki give me an in depth summary of this article:
https://nypost.com/2026/04/28/sports/anthony-nunez-dominating-after-mets-traded-him-to-orioles/
5/5 🧵 The twist is brutal for the Mets because this is exactly the kind of reliever they could use right now, with their bullpen lacking reliable depth and key arms being shaky. So the article’s point is simple: this wasn’t just a failed rental move — it may become one of those trades that keeps getting worse in hindsight if Nunez sticks as a high-leverage arm. 📎 Source
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4/5 🧵 Now in the majors, he’s not just surviving — he’s shoving. Through 12 appearances, Nunez posted a 1.35 ERA over 13 1/3 innings with 10.8 strikeouts per nine. Small sample, sure. But he’s already being trusted in the 7th and 8th innings, which tells you Baltimore doesn’t see him as a novelty call-up. They see a real bullpen piece. He even picked up his first save on April 22 vs. the Royals, striking out two to close it.
3/5 🧵 Nunez is the part that really stings. He’s a 24-year-old righty who had already been intriguing because he successfully converted from position player to reliever. In the minors, he put up a 2.86 ERA, struck out 83 hitters in 56 2/3 innings, and showed enough upside to stand out as the best prospect of the three the Mets moved.
2/5 🧵 The article frames the deal as a clear early loss for the Mets. Mullins was brought in last summer to fix center field, but he barely helped: 42 games, 22 hits, a .182 average, and weak overall production after the trade. Meanwhile, the Mets also gave up three prospects — Nunez, Chandler Marsh, and Raimon Gomez — for that short-lived experiment.
1/5 🧵 The ugly part of the Cedric Mullins trade isn’t just that the Mets got almost nothing. It’s that one of the arms they shipped out, Anthony Nunez, is already looking like a legit late-inning bullpen weapon for Baltimore.