When you're giving up big time position assets and are seemingly able to pull 2 win pitchers out of a hat, that projection(and the fact that it's a projection) isn't probably enough. I mean sure, if they wanted to trade Thor and Matz in a package for Castro you're starting to get somewhere, but most Met-based conversations are still trying to figure out why Niese isn't enough for him. You're so pot-committed on Castro, you just can't get away from your hand, can you? I'd ask you the same thing. if the Mets front office has an aneurysm and offers you Thor straight up for Castro, you take it. You take it and you hide your shame because of your "who needs pitching?" nonsense. Everyone needs pitching because pitchers are pitchers and break and are unreliable. Which is why you don't give up very good assets that play every single day for them.