The Mets proceed to beef up their bullpen.
Ryne Stanek is about to re-sign after re-emerging as a postseason weapon final fall.
It’s a one-year, $4.5 million contract with the potential for an additional $500,000 in incentives, in line with MLB.com.
The Mets initially acquired Stanek, 33, in a pre-deadline commerce with the Seattle Mariners final July.
The hard-throwing right-hander struggled to a 6.06 ERA over 17 appearances with the Mets within the common season, however he returned to kind within the playoffs, recording a 3.38 ERA and eight strikeouts over eight innings.
Stanek, who averaged 97.7 mph along with his fastball final yr, owns a 3.65 ERA over his eight-year MLB profession, which additionally consists of stints with the Tampa Bay Rays, Miami Marlins and Houston Astros.
He continued to dwell as much as his status as a robust performer within the postseason, the place he has a 4-0 file and a 2.89 ERA in 28 profession innings, largely for the Astros. He gained a World Sequence with Houston in 2022.
The settlement with Stanek comes lower than per week after the Mets formally signed one other high-leverage reliever in left-hander A.J. Minter, who gained a World Sequence with the Atlanta Braves in 2021.
Minter, 31, owns a 3.28 ERA over eight MLB seasons, all with Atlanta.
Stanek and Minter are anticipated to be key members of the bridge to All-Star nearer Edwin Diaz, who had a 3.52 ERA, 20 saves and 84 strikeouts in 53.2 innings final season, his first since present process patellar surgical procedure on his proper knee in March 2023.
Additionally returning to the Mets’ bullpen are Reed Garrett, who had a 3.77 ERA and 83 strikeouts in 57.1 innings throughout a breakout season in 2024, and fellow right-hander Dedniel Núñez, who completed with a 2.31 ERA as a rookie.
Núñez, who suffered a season-ending proper flexor tendon pressure in August, threw bullpen periods and dwell batting follow within the Dominican Republic this offseason, in line with supervisor Carlos Mendoza.
He’s set to start ramping up once more quickly.
“Right now, all the reports, and talking to him as well, [are that] he’s in a good place,” Mendoza mentioned Saturday on the Mets’ Amazin’ Day fan competition at Citi Discipline.
The Mets’ bullpen ERA of 4.03 ranked seventeenth within the majors final season.
