Too pricy for Mets, Yoenis Cespedes may rejoin Detroit Tigers

Cespedes had a great second-half run last season with the NL champion Mets, but it appears that one of the teams hottest to get him for next season is the club that traded him last July.

Cespedes, 30, was traded from the Boston Red Sox to the Tigers last December and hit .293 with 18 homers and 61 homers in 102 games for them last season before being traded to the Mets.

He finished the season batting .287 with 17 homers and 44 RBIs in 57 regular games for the Mets, plus .222 with two homers and eight RBIs in 14 postseason games.

The Red Sox’s drastic reshaping continued Monday with lefty starter Wade Miley (11-11, 4.46 ERA) and rookie reliever Jonathan Aro (6.97 ERA, 6 games) being swapped to Seattle for standout righty reliever Carson Smith (2.31 ERA, 70 games) and bottom-of-the-rotation righty starter Roenis Elias (5-8, 4.14).

If the Pirates deal for the lefty-swinging Moreland, who hit .285 with 23 homers and 85 RBs last season, he’d likely platoon next season with Michael Morse, a slugger who hits right-handed.

An All-Star in 2010 as a starter, Cahill, who turns 28 on March 1, was out of baseball for two months last season after being released by Atlanta in mid-June with an 0-3 record and 7.52 ERA in 15 games, 12 as a reliever.

A career .293 hitter and 2011 All-Star, Kendrick hit .295 with nine homers and 54 RBIs in 117 games last season.

Right-handed reliever Mark Lowe, who had a 1.96 ERA over 57 outings last season for Seattle and Toronto, signed a two-year deal with Detroit.