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Category Archives: Free Agency
Brandon Nimmo is Back with the Mets, Agreeing to Eight-Year, $162 Million Deal
With all the main free agents pretty much off the board, this signing had to get dome. Seriously, there’s no way we were moving Marte to CF and now it’s just a matter of Brandon staying healthy.
Jacob deGrom Chooses Money Over Loyalty, Signs 5-Year Deal with Rangers
DeGrom was always adamany that he was going to opt-out of his contract so that was the biggest clue that he no longer wanted to be in NY. Now he has his $$$ and will pitch for a 68-win team in Texas. Good for him.
RELATED: Jacob deGrom spurned Mets’ three-year deal in $120 million range
MLB Insider on Free Agent Carlos Rodon’s Meeting with the Mets
This guy’s career has been like night and day. I prefer more consistency, but whatever.
RELATED: New York Mets to Meet With Free Agent Starter Carlos Rodon
Astros Sign Jose Abreu, Mets Will Look ‘Internally’ for DH
Just when you’re loving the idea of a proven slugger like Jose Abreu batting behind Pete Alonso in the lineup, Steve Cohen and company come crashing down on my dreams.
Mets Have Talked with Free Agent Pitcher Justin Verlander
I can’t take this news seriously. I mean year Verlander just won a Cy Young award. But does Steve Cohen really have the $$$ for Verlander and DeGrom? Then there’s Verlander’s age, etc.
RELATED: Mets Considering Justin Verlander
Mets Could Make Serious Run at Trea Turner
Any Mets fan should want Turner on their team. Guy plays hard and he’s a winner.
RELATED: Jon Hamm narrates Trea Turner’s hype video for MLB free agency
Edwin Diaz, Mets Agree to 5-Year, $102 Million Deal
Star closer Edwin Diaz and the New York Mets are in agreement on a five-year, $102 million contract, pending a physical, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Sunday.
There’s an opt-out and a full no-trade clause plus a sixth-year option in the contract, sources said. The Diaz deal is the first nine-figure contract ever for a closer, and for the first time, it takes the position into the $20 million-plus range.
Damn, that was quick. A day after the World Series and Cohen locks up our closer for 5 years. That man don’t play.
RELATED: Mets could acquire closer Edwin Diaz’s brother to help bring him back to team
Mets Are Prioritizing Signing Brandon Nimmo and Edwin Diaz
This makes sense as I don’t think we’re getting Aaron Judge and Diaz right now is the best closer in the game.
I Don’t Want Aaron Judge On My Team
First of all, Aaron Judge deserves all the money he’s going to get this off-season and he’s going to win the the AL MVP. Secondly, he’s going to stay a Yankee because there’s no way the pinstripe owner’s give up on their homegrown product and future Hall of Famer. Lastly, we need to concentrate on resigning Brandon Nimmo because frankly speaking we don’t have anyone else to play CF and with the addition of saving some money, that’s why I don’t want Judge on my team.
Should Mets Break the Bank to Bring Back Jacob deGrom?
I’d give deGrom 5 years/$225M with some incentives and be extra careful with him when he pitches.
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Mets Need To Make Signing Brandon Nimmo a Priority
Ideally, I’d like for the Mets to sign Nimmo and Trea Turner. But they can only pick one than let it be Nimmo. Brandon is a home-grown Met, everyone loves his attitude, he had a great 2022 offensively and defensively, always hustles and in a year where he finally stayed injury-free, so what if he only stole 3 bases for a leadoff guy.
Michael Conforto STILL Remains Unsigned
Last December, more than two dozen present and former Mets players filed into the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Ariz., to celebrate their teammate Michael Conforto’s wedding. The party, they said, was a memorable one. Since that time, most Mets have shied away from contact with Conforto, understanding the sensitivity of his situation as baseball’s most prominent remaining free agent. He is the only unsigned free agent that Fangraphs projects for more than a single Win Above Replacement in 2022.
“Obviously a confusing time [for him], probably a frustrating time,” said Conforto’s longtime teammate, Brandon Nimmo. “I’m just wishing him the best.”
Conforto only has himself to blame for remaining unsigned. In 2021 he turned down a longterm deal with the Mets, had a subpar 2021 season and still turned down a QO by the Mets because he expected that some dumb GM would sign him to a $100M-plus deal this offseason. I say at best he gets a 2-to-3 year deal no more than $50M at this point.
Mets Lose Out On Kris Bryant
Third baseman Kris Bryant and the Colorado Rockies are in agreement on a seven-year, $182 million contract, sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday.
Bryant is headed to his third team in eight months after spending his first six major league seasons with the Chicago Cubs, who traded him to the San Francisco Giants last July.
Acquiring Bryant for even 1 year would’ve put the Mets over the top and I really thought Steve Cohen would pull it off. But 7 years for a guy who be past his prime was clearly asking for too much.
Marcus Stroman Signs 3-Year, $71M Deal with Cubs
Marcus Stroman is leaving New York for the Windy City.
The 30-year-old right-hander signed a three-year, $71 million contract with the Cubs that includes an opt out after the second season, according to ESPN. According to the report, he will make $25 million in 2022, $25 million in 2023 and $21 million in 2024, and the deal also includes $2 million escalators for 160 innings pitched in ‘22 and ‘23.
We’ll miss Stroman, but $24M a year for your 3rd starter is steep. That said, I’d still give Zack Greinke’s agent a call.