José Quintana agrees to 2-year deal with Mets (source)

The Mets have agreed to a two-year, $26 million contract with free-agent left-hander José Quintana, a supply advised MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand on Wednesday. 

The membership has not confirmed the deal.

Quintana, who will flip 34 in January, is coming off a resurgent 2022 season, going from signing a one-year, $2 million cope with the Pirates in November 2021 to beginning Game 1 of the NL Wild Card Series for the Cardinals 11 months later.

In between, the veteran left-hander recorded a 2.93 ERA with 137 strikeouts over 165 2/3 innings, together with a 2.01 ERA in 12 begins for the Cards after Pittsburgh despatched him to St. Louis in a four-player deal on the Trade Deadline.

It was a powerful bounce-back effort for a pitcher who recorded a 5.13 ERA in 244 innings from 2019-21 with the Cubs, Angels and Giants.

A local of Arjona, Colombia, Quintana earned his lone All-Star choice with the White Sox in 2016, the final 12 months in a streak of 4 straight 200-inning seasons. He had a 3.35 ERA in that span.

The White Sox traded Quintana to the Cubs the next season in a deal that introduced Dylan Cease and Eloy Jiménez to the South Side.