Mets, Senga reach 5-year, $75M deal (source)
The Mets seem to have added one other dominant piece to what would be the Majors’ finest rotation, reaching a five-year, $75 million take care of Japanese right-hander Kodai Senga, a supply informed MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand late Saturday night time. The membership has not confirmed the deal, which continues to be pending the completion of a bodily.
There is a full no-trade clause within the contract, which additionally comprises an opt-out clause that can enable Senga to turn into a free agent after the 2025 season, in accordance with Feinsand.
Senga, who turns 30 in January, spent 11 seasons in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball group, all for the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. Overall, the right-hander posted a 2.59 ERA and 1.12 WHIP over 1,089 innings, putting out 28% of the batters he confronted, but in addition strolling 9%. In 2022, he had a 1.89 ERA and a 1.04 WHIP over 148 innings for the Hawks.
During the 2017 World Baseball Classic semifinals, Senga pitched two innings of aid in opposition to Team USA, putting out 5 — Eric Hosmer, Andrew McCutchen, Buster Posey, Giancarlo Stanton and Christian Yelich all went down on strikes in opposition to the then-24-year-old.
The 6-foot, 178-pound Senga, who contains a 101-mph fastball and a biting splitter, filed for worldwide free company on Oct. 31, and he was not too long ago declared a global free agent. According to FanGraphs, Senga’s fastball has “exploding” motion, however his two breaking pitches — a cutter and a slider — are usually not as efficient because the fastball and splitter, notably with regards to lacking bats.
Senga was not topic to the NPB posting course of as a result of he accrued sufficient service time within the league to file for worldwide free company. As a consequence, there isn’t any “release fee” to be paid to his NPB group in an effort to signal him to a Major League contract.
Adding Senga would additional bolster a Mets rotation that earlier this week introduced in reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander to pair with co-ace Max Scherzer. The Mets additionally signed veteran lefty José Quintana and finalized offers with reliever David Robertson and outfielder Brandon Nimmo.
