Mets target Braves, Padres for Noah Syndergaard trade

Noah SyndergaardThe Astros have most aggressively pursued Noah Syndergaard but the Mets’ current stance is that only the Braves and Padres and their stacked systems are ideally positioned to obtain the righty, The Post has learned.

Mets executives Allard Baird and Omar Minaya, perhaps general manager Brodie Van Wagenen‘s most trusted scouts, watched Atlanta’s Double- and Triple-A clubs on Thursday. Nevertheless, the Braves did not consider substantive negotiations with the Mets to have yet been undertaken. The Braves, though, thought they were on the periphery with Dallas Keuchel, until a surge in negotiations brought that free agent deal together quickly in early June.

The Padres have…