Jeff McNeil, Brandon Nimmo, Kodai Senga and Mark Vientos are all career-long Mets. They have something else in common: their names have popped up in trade rumors. Let’s take a look at how they did in 2025, their contracts and how moving each of them might affect the roster. (Assume for the sake of this exercise that the player coming back is a pitcher, which is the Mets’ greatest...
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Edwin Díaz rejected the Mets’ one-year, $22.025 million qualifying offer Tuesday as expected. The National League’s Reliever of the Year will continue to test the free agent market. Díaz, 31, went 6-3 with a 1.63 ERA, 0.87 WHIP and struck out 98 in 66 1/3 innings pitched this year. He saved 28 games in 31 tries. The Mets signed Díaz to a five-year, $102 million contract in 2022, but...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Tom Seaver would have been 81 years old today. A Manhattan judge on Friday granted a temporary restraining order to the United States Tennis Association, which accuses the city in a lawsuit of violating the terms of a lease agreement so it can help Steve Cohen with a plan to build a casino on parking lots next to Citi Field. The USTA owns and runs the tennis complex that...
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Nolan McLean was rated the top pitching prospect in baseball, leading eight Mets who cracked the Top 100 list released Thursday by Just Baseball, a site that bases its rankings on live looks, video, minor league stats and talks with scouts, team officials and other baseball industry sources. McLean, who went 5-1 with a 2.06 ERA and struck out 57 in 48 innings pitched with the Mets, came in as...
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The Mets may be battling the Yankees for a free agent outfielder again, according to a report by the New York Post’s Jon Heyman. The Mets are one of several teams interested in free agent Cody Bellinger. Bellinger, 30, hit .272/.334/.480 with 29 homers, 98 RBIs and 13 steals for the Yankees this year. He posted 5.1 bWAR and played in 152 games, the most since his 2019 MVP season with the...
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