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

Left-hander Sean Manaea and the New York Mets are successful statement connected a three-year, $75 cardinal contract, sources told ESPN, keeping the seasoned pinch the squad he helped lead to a astonishment National League Championship Series appearance.

Manaea, 32, blossomed into a front-half-of-the-rotation starter pinch the Mets this year, going 12-6 pinch a 3.47 ERA and striking retired 184 complete 181.2 innings pitched. The deal, which is pending a physical, will much than double Manaea's profession net and continues a wintertime of lavish spending for the Mets.

Last winter, Manaea signed pinch the Mets for 2 years and $28 million. The statement included an opt-out, which Manaea exercised. When he rejected New York's one-year, $21.05 cardinal qualifying offer, he deed the free supplier marketplace and drew liking from a wide assortment of teams.

The starting pitching market, successful particular, has been a boon for players, pinch Manaea the sixth pitcher to motion a free supplier woody exceeding $21 cardinal per twelvemonth and the 12th to surpass $13 cardinal successful mean yearly value. Manaea near a beardown capable belief connected the Mets -- some connected the field, pinch his caller limb slot starring to a standout year, and successful the clubhouse, wherever he developed into a clubhouse leader -- that adding him to the Mets' wintertime haul proved excessively alluring to walk up.

Already the Mets had handed retired the largest statement successful sports history, a 15-year, $765 cardinal woody for outfielder Juan Soto. And pinch Luis Severino and Jose Quintana free agents, they backfilled their rotation pinch correct handers Frankie Montas and Clay Holmes, the second of whom plans to modulation from a alleviation domiciled to starter. Additionally, the Mets had signed right-handed starter Griffin Canning. Their full free supplier spending connected the wintertime is $916.25 million.

New York's desire for Manaea's return was beardown capable that he joined Blake Snell, Max Fried and Nathan Eovaldi successful this winter's $25 million-a-year commencement club. Since going to Kansas City pinch the 34th prime successful the 2013 draft, Manaea has been a beingness gem, pinch his 6-foot-5, 250-pound assemblage creating deception that helped his low-90s fastball play up.

With the Mets, Manaea returned to a overmuch much sinker-heavy arsenal aft 2 years of throwing almost exclusively four-seam fastballs. That, on pinch the dropping of his limb slot to mimic NL Cy Young Award victor Chris Sale, did wonders for Manaea's accumulation and allowed him to look much for illustration the 2021 type of himself.

He excelled successful the postseason, too, allowing 2 runs complete 5 innings successful a wild-card information commencement and 7 innings of one-run shot successful a section bid triumph against Philadelphia. After yielding 2 earned runs during a Game 2 NLCS triumph successful Los Angeles, Manaea sewage knocked retired of Game 6 successful the 3rd inning of what could person been his last commencement for New York.

It wasn't, and he'll walk his 10th play successful Queens aft a profession successful which he has thrown 1,184.1 innings pinch a 4.00 ERA, 1,109 strikeouts, 335 walks and 158 location runs allowed.

The Mets, meanwhile, could spell successful aggregate directions to further complement their summation of Soto to the lineup. First baseman Pete Alonso and 3rd baseman Alex Bregman are the champion remaining free supplier hitters, and the Mets could re-sign Alonso aliases motion Bregman and displacement Mark Vientos from first to third. The Mets besides person dabbled successful the free supplier outfield market, sources said, and they stay progressive successful waste and acquisition talks arsenic well.