The downside of spending hundreds of millions in free agency each offseason is that it tends to leave teams devoid of top ...

The Mets are believed less likely to sign free agents for which draft picks will be lost (the ones who have received qualifying offers). The Mets only say it’s part of the equation, but their ...

Signing Soto cost the Mets $1M in international draft pool money and their second- and fifth-highest picks in the 2025 draft, so signing another QO-rejecting free agent would cost another $1M of ...

Before the 4:00 p.m. ET deadline on Tuesday, Jacob deGrom, Chris Bassitt and Brandon Nimmo all rejected the Mets’ $19.65 million qualifying offer. These decisions are not a surprise and all ...

As many as 14 Mets, many of them key players, will or can be free agents after the World Series. A team that won 101 games but lost in the first round of the playoffs over the weekend is poised to ...

The Mets don’t have any departing free agents they are likely to negotiate with. Right-hander Carlos Carrasco’s time in Queens has come to an end after a dismal season.

The Mets need a bat and glaringly so. The team boasted a very solid lineup in 2022. The Amazins’ had the sixth-best OPS in baseball and the second-highest OBP. They put the ball in play and m… ...

The Mets have many decisions to make in free agency, ... He cited “how I’ve been treated while I’ve been here” and “the chance they took me on the draft” as positives for the Mets, ...

Mets' potential trade targets, free agency news heading into MLB Winter Meetings 2023. ... Burnes is a player that Stearns knows well as one of the Mets president's first draft picks in 2016.

Mets' potential free-agent targets Yoshinobu Yamamoto. ... Burnes is a player that Stearns knows well as one of the Mets president's first draft picks in 2016.

While the Mets should be able to meet most of their needs in free agency with this payroll, they would still have the avenue of trades to bring in younger, less expensive talent like Crochet.