There wasn’t much flashy about the Mets’ trade-deadline moves, which largely mirrored the approach the front office took in assembling this team last winter.

Maybe Exhibit A on that front was Sean Manaea, the only free-agent signed to a multi-year contract (two years, $28 million) by the club. Manaea has worked out just fine, and Tuesday night even looked elite.

With the left-hander showing his best stuff of the season over seven scoreless innings, the Mets won their second straight, 2-0 over the Twins at Citi Field.

Before the game the team completed trades to address the rotation and bullpen, acquiring starting pitcher Paul Blackburn from the Athletics and relievers Huascar Brazoban and Tyler Zuber from the Marlins and Rays, respectively.

Manaea, who pitched in Oakland with Blackburn, was asked what the Mets are getting in their newest addition to the rotation.

“Consistency,” Manaea said. “He’s pretty quiet.”

Manager Carlos Mendoza said he had enough conversations with president of baseball operations David Stearns in recent weeks to have a good sense of the Mets’ direction at the trade deadline.

Mendoza’s reaction to the moves?

“You don’t try to get too excited or down, because at the end of the day you are going to have a lot of conversations and who knows, you have got to find a match,” Mendoza said. “But the whole time … my job is to manage the 26 guys and win a baseball game every night.”

Manaea allowed only two hits and one walk and finished with a season-high 11 strikeouts before Ryne Stanek and Edwin Diaz combined to record the final six outs.

Diaz, who entered with the tying runs on base in the eighth and struck out Buxton, worked 1 1/3 innings for his 13^th save. The shutout was the Mets’ third this season, all of which have occurred since July 11.

The Mets (57-50) moved seven games above .500 for the second time this season and will look to complete the series sweep Wednesday before heading to the West Coast.

Manaea’s outing followed a strong performance a night earlier from Jose Quintana, who limited the Twins to one run over six innings. Manaea relied heavily on his sinker and surrendered two singles, to Brooks Lee and Carlos Santana, on the night.

His strikeout total was the highest by a Mets left-hander since Steven Matz in 2018.

“I felt like I was throwing everything for strikes and getting ahead of guys,” Manaea said.

Manaea’s best work might have come against the meat of the Twins’ lineup – Buxton, Royce Lewis and Jose Miranda were a combined 0-for-8 with eight strikeouts.

“When he’s throwing the sinker, but then he’s got the sweeper and the fastball off the top with [velocity], with conviction and life it makes for a tough at-bat,” Mendoza said. “They have got some good right-handed hitters that can hit left-handed pitchers and he pretty much was complete attacking today.”  

Offensively, the Mets were quiet a night after erupting for 15 runs, but managed to survive on five hits.

J.D. Martinez stroked an RBI single in the fourth that brought in the game’s first run. Brandon Nimmo walked and took second on a balk before reaching third on a wild pitch. Martinez followed with a single that gave him 47 RBIs for the season.

Mark Vientos homered leading off the fifth to give the Mets a 2-0 lead. The blast was Vientos’ third in seven games and 15^th overall this season.

The ensuing batter, Jeff McNeil, got plunked by David Festa, but was left stranded at second base.

Festa, a Verona, N.J. native who attended Seton Hall, lasted five innings and allowed two earned runs on three hits with six strikeouts and one walk. It was the fourth major-league appearance for the right-hander and third as a starter.