Inevitablity?

Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler, and Jacob deGrom are locks for the starting rotation. So you have three starters with only two spots left in the rotation. Jon Niese is the only lefty of the group, and nobody wants to pay $11 million for one year of 42-year-old Bartolo Colon. So it would make sense that Dillon Gee would be the odd man out. And sure enough, Adam Rubin has told us that Gee is being “aggressively shopped“. Which kinda makes the Mets like Omaha Steaks … who call you every single day until you buy one of their special “holiday packs” which includes jumbo hot dogs and stuffed baked potatoes.

Well unfortunately for you, Dillon Gee doesn’t come with hot dogs and baked potatoes. But there is still interest:

Rangers expected to talk to Mets about P Jon Niese and Dillion Gee and Marlins: Andrew Heaney and Nathan Eovaldi. Mets need SS Marlins 1B

— TR Sullivan (@Sullivan_Ranger) December 9, 2014

//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsWell, Texas has enough food. But Gee is from Texas, so it would be a homecoming.

#Giants #royals two teams to watch on Gee, but there are others who have checked in too. — Andy Martino (@MartinoNYDN) December 8, 2014

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Oddly enough, this news comes one day after Dillon joined our friends at Sports Talk NY live. So be sure to check out his interview, which touched on his time in Brooklyn, how he likes to watch people (sounds creepy), and the state of his beard, which is important. (Among other, more important things like his health, and oddly enough … trade rumors.)

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(Dillon also mentions how R.A. Dickey was a mentor to him. Too bad he allegedly became a curmudgeon.)