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Sources: Manaea again to Mets for 3 years, $75M

Jeff Passan, Senior MLB InsiderDec 23, 2024, 02:37 AM ET Close ESPN MLB insider Author of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Left-hander Sean Manaea and the New York Mets are in agreement on a three-year, $75 million contract, sources told ESPN, keeping the veteran with the team

Sources: Manaea again to Mets for 3 years, $75M

  • Jeff Passan, Senior MLB InsiderDec 23, 2024, 02:37 AM ET

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Left-hander Sean Manaea and the New York Mets are in settlement on a three-year, $75 million contract, sources informed ESPN, protecting the veteran with the staff he helped result in a shock Nationwide League Championship Sequence look.

Manaea, 32, blossomed right into a front-half-of-the-rotation starter with the Mets this 12 months, going 12-6 with a 3.47 ERA and putting out 184 over 181⅔ innings pitched. The deal, which is pending a bodily, will greater than double Manaea’s profession earnings and continues a winter of lavish spending for the Mets.

Final winter, Manaea signed with the Mets for 2 years and $28 million. The contract included an opt-out, which Manaea exercised. When he rejected New York’s one-year, $21.05 million qualifying supply, he hit free company and drew curiosity from all kinds of groups.

The beginning pitching market, particularly, has been a boon for gamers, with Manaea the sixth pitcher to signal a free agent deal exceeding $21 million per 12 months and the twelfth to surpass $13 million in common annual worth. Manaea left a powerful sufficient impression on the Mets — each on the sector, along with his new arm slot resulting in a standout 12 months, and within the clubhouse, the place he developed right into a staff chief — that including him to the Mets’ winter haul proved too alluring to go up.

Already the Mets had handed out the biggest contract in sports activities historical past, a 15-year, $765 million deal for outfielder Juan Soto. And with Luis Severino and Jose Quintana being free brokers, the Mets backfilled their rotation with right-handers Frankie Montas and Clay Holmes, the latter of whom plans to transition from a aid position to starter. Moreover, the Mets had signed right-handed starter Griffin Canning. Their complete free agent spending on the winter is $916.25 million.

New York’s need for Manaea’s return was sturdy sufficient that he joined Blake Snell, Max Fried and Nathan Eovaldi on this winter’s membership of beginning pitchers incomes $25 million per 12 months. Since going to the Kansas City Royals with the thirty fourth decide within the 2013 draft, Manaea has been a bodily gem, along with his 6-foot-5, 250-pound physique creating deception that helped his low-90s fastball play up.

With the Mets, Manaea returned to a way more sinker-heavy arsenal after two years of throwing nearly completely four-seam fastballs. That, together with the dropping of his arm slot to imitate NL Cy Younger Award winner Chris Sale, did wonders for Manaea’s manufacturing and had him wanting extra just like the 2021 model of himself.

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He excelled within the postseason too, permitting two runs over 5 innings in a wild-card-round begin and pitching seven innings of one-run ball in a division collection win in opposition to the Philadelphia Phillies. After yielding two earned runs throughout a Recreation 2 NLCS win on the Los Angeles Dodgers, Manaea obtained knocked out of Recreation 6 within the third inning of what may have been his closing begin for New York.

It wasn’t, and he’ll spend his tenth MLB season in Queens throughout a profession by which he has thrown 1,184⅓ innings with a 4.00 ERA, 1,109 strikeouts, 335 walks and 158 house runs allowed and that additionally has included stints with the Oakland Athletics (2016 to 2021), San Diego Padres (2022) and San Francisco Giants (2023).

The Mets, in the meantime, may go in a number of instructions to additional complement their addition of Soto to the lineup. First baseman Pete Alonso and third baseman Alex Bregman are the perfect remaining free agent hitters, and the Mets may re-sign Alonso or signal Bregman and shift Mark Vientos from first to 3rd. The Mets even have dabbled within the free agent outfield market, sources mentioned, they usually stay energetic in commerce talks, as properly.

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