Let’s flash forward 11 months when the Mets probably will be facing an opt-out situation with Max Scherzer.
SAN DIEGO — Now that Jacob deGrom has used his opt-out to escape New York, let’s flash forward 11 months when the Mets probably will be facing the same situation with Max Scherzer.is still fresh for the franchise and its fan base, then know this is a current issue for the Mets. Unless they would like to make reconstructing a rotation as annual a tradition as, say, Thanksgiving.
Thus, the Mets are heading toward a scenario that looks very much like this one — reassembling an entire pitching staff, notably a rotationSo as the Mets pursue starting pitching this offseason, they must emphasize more than just 2023. I think they should be all in on Justin Verlander. Might that mean a two-year, even $90 million contract? Maybe. Perhaps it will take three years. And Verlander turns 40 in February.But he is coming off an AL Cy Young season.
There was no more strident player during collective bargaining negotiations than Scherzer, none who wants to see what a true unfettered market would bring players. And if Verlander is going to at least threaten to top Scherzer’s record annual value of $43.33 million entering his age-40 season, then a healthy Scherzer completing his age-38 season in 2023 will either move Steve Cohen to extend him or go out into free agency to chase the upper end of the market for the third time in his career.
Do the Mets try to retain Taijuan Walker, flip Jameson Taillon to the other side of the RFK Bridge, push hard for Japanese star Kodai Senga, reunite Andrew Heaney with his one-time Angels GM Billy Eppler, try to play the upside with Ross Stripling or perhaps even go for Noah Syndergaard II?
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