The New York Mets have had an offseason full of moves including a front office shift where former agent Brodie Van Wagenen became the new General Manager. Van Wagenen was Jacob deGrom’s former agent and has now signed him to a 5-year, $137.5 million contract extension with the New York Mets. The extension comes during an offseason after deGrom won the National League Cy Young Award. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported the official terms of the deal and Andy Martino reported the two sides coming to an initial agreement.
DeGrom agreed to new, five-year, $137.5M contract with #Mets, sources tell The Athletic. Covering 2019 to ‘23 with club option for ‘24. Opt-out after ‘22. Deal first reported: @MartinoNYC.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) March 26, 2019
BREAKING: The Mets have a deal on a contract extension with Jacob deGrom, per source. It is pending a physical. He is in NY right now for physical.
— Andy Martino (@martinonyc) March 26, 2019
In his 2018 campaign, deGrom’s Cy Young Award winning statistics brought him a 10-9 record, a 1.70 ERA, a 0.91 WHIP, and 269 punch outs over 217 innings pitched. deGrom is crucial to the New York Mets success during the 2019 season as Opening Day inches closer. The Mets rotation is currently slated to have deGrom at the head of it, Noah Syndergaard as the second guy, Steven Matz to follw him, Zack Wheeler and Jason Vargas to round out the rotation.
The Mets have made a lot of improvements this offseason acquiring Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz from the Seattle Mariners. The Mets also added players like Jed Lowrie, Wilson Ramos, Devin Mesoraco, Rajai Davis, Carlos Gomez, Adeiny Hechavarria, Justin Wilson, and bringing back Jeurys Familia who was traded to the Oakland Athletics last year at the trade deadline. The Mets locking down deGrom shows that they are planning on being a postseason threat soon, keeping their ace around will only help the odds of this staying true.
Something to keep an eye on while htis is happening is that Major League Baseball players are signing extensions like crazy. Players are truly not happy with the way free agency has treated players like Manny Machado, Bryce Harper, Dallas Keuchel, and Craig Kimbrel. Mike Trout who just signed a monster extension with the Los Angeles Angels even commented on the free agency issues saying that he was hesitant to go into free agency with the way things went for Harper. This seems to be a reoccuring theme and is definitely somehting to keep an eye on.
