The New York Mets have re-signed left-handed reliever Jerry Blevins according to Jon Heyman of Fan Rag Sports. The deal is for one year guaranteed at $6.5 million dollars, but includes a a team option that could bring the total value to $12.5 million over two years. He can also earn $100,000 in incentives each each year as per Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.
This was a huge move by Sandy Alderson, who signed right-hander Fernando Salas earlier this evening. With these two moves, the Mets have solidified their bullpen and should be okay even if Jeurys Familia is suspended. I love it…
I hope that now you can all relax and understand that everything does not have to happen at a fevered pace to make progress and improve your team in the offseason.
Believe it or not, you can actually take a methodical approach to things and still achieve the same and in most cases even more optimal results.
So here’s the bottom line. The Mets started this offseason by handing out MLB’s largest free agent contract to Yoenis Cespedes. Then they brought back Neil Walker at a cost of $17.2 million dollars, picked up the $13 million dollar option on Jay Bruce, and re-signed relievers Fernando Salas and Jerry Blevins. How many f’kin teams did more? That’s a pretty huge offseason…
And by the way, I was the only one for the last four weeks saying Jerry Blevins was coming back to the Mets… (Hey beat reporters… Take that bitches!)
Original Report – Jan 31
Last Thursday, a trusted source told me that the Mets had circled back to lefty reliever Jerry Blevins and reengaged him in contract talks. This as the team’s beat writers were reporting that the Mets were going to keep right fielder Jay Bruce and that they would now look to internal options to fill their bullpen needs due to payroll concerns.
A few days later on Saturday, that same source told me that negotiations between the Mets and Blevins were advancing and that they could be reaching some common ground. This news came about an hour after someone else told me that Blevins was telling friends that he truly wanted to return to the Mets.
I reported all of that this weekend and again this morning, but here’s a similar report coming from some obscure source. 🙂
Both Mike Puma and Ken Davidoff of the New York Post reports that the Mets and Blevins are trying to find “common ground” on a two-year deal. (Note their usage of the phrase common ground.) They say the deal they are working on could be backloaded. However, I myself had no information regarding that. We’ll see.
Blevins, 33, went 4-2 with a 2.79 ERA and 3.05 FIP in 73 appearances last season for the Mets. I love Blevins because in addition to getting left-handed hitters out he has no problems getting righty sluggers out.
If the Mets do reach a deal with him, and I do believe they will, this will be a significant boost for them. With J.P. Howell signing a deal this evening with the Toronto Blue Jays, Jerry Blevins could be turning a lonely eye toward Flushing.
