Mets send Den Dekker to Nats in exchange for Blevins

This is a bit of old news, but I totally missed it.

Matt den Dekker is no longer a Met. The Mets traded him to the Washington Nationals in exchange for Jerry Blevins.
The Nationals had a surplus of left handed relievers while they needed some outfield depth.

Blevins was hit hard this spring and gave up three runs in 1 2/3 innings over his past two outings. Both of those outings came against the Mets. The lefty, who gave up 31 runs in 57 1/3 innings last year and held left-handed batters to a .160 average. Especially the batting average of the opponents isn’t too shabby.

Den Dekker wasn’t sure if he could make the Opening Day roster. If  he had made it, it would have been as a bench player. His role will not be much different with the Nationals though. Den Dekker was competing for New York’s fifth outfield spot with Kirk Nieuwenhuis. Den Dekker has minor league options remaining while Nieuwenhuis does not, and so Den Dekker was unlikely to win that job out of camp.
Den Dekker appeared in 80 games for the Mets over the past two seasons and hit .238 with a .345 on-base percentage and .322 slugging mark. He hit .328 with six doubles in the final two months of the 2014 season, and is a solid defender.