{"id":163554,"date":"2022-12-20T21:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T21:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mets-to-re-sign-adam-ottavino-to-two-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T21:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T21:02:59","slug":"mets-to-re-sign-adam-ottavino-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mets-to-re-sign-adam-ottavino-to-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets To Re-Sign Adam Ottavino To Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mets and right hander Adam Ottavino<\/strong> are in agreement on a contract to bring him back to Queens. It will be a two-year, $14.5MM deal with Ottavino having the ability to opt-out after the first year. The deal is pending a physical.<\/p>\n

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He reached free agency and signed with the Yankees going into 2019, signing a three-year deal worth $27MM. The first year of that deal went very well as he posted a 1.90 ERA in the Bronx, though that ballooned to 5.89 in 2020. That was a small sample of 18 1\/3 innings in the shortened season, but it was enough for the Yanks to move on, flipping him to the Red Sox in a salary dump trade. Ottavino then posted a 4.21 ERA for Boston in 2021, with his strikeout rate dipping to 25.7% and his walk rate coming in at 12.7%.<\/p>\n

The Mets signed Ottavino to a modest one-year deal for 2022 worth $4MM plus incentives and were rewarded with an excellent bounceback campaign. The righty made 66 appearances out of the Mets’ bullpen in 2022, finishing the year with a 2.06 ERA, striking out 30.6% of batters faced while walking just 6.2% of them. He also got ground balls on 51.9% of balls in play while racking up three saves and 18 holds for the year. Based on that strong comeback campaign, MLBTR predicted Ottavino could secure himself a two-year, $14MM contract, which he has narrowly exceeded here.<\/p>\n

The Mets were facing a huge bullpen exodus this offseason, with Ottavino, Edwin Diaz<\/strong>, Seth Lugo<\/strong>, Trevor Williams<\/strong>, Joely Rodriguez<\/strong> and Trevor May<\/strong> all reaching free agency a few weeks ago. They have since addressed that situation by re-signing D\u00edaz, signing David Robertson<\/strong>trading for Brooks Raley<\/strong> and now bringing Ottavino back into the fray as well.<\/p>\n

In addition to those moves, the club has been extremely active in free agency to address other parts of the roster. The rotation also had a number of holes appear, with Jacob deGrom<\/strong>, Chris Bassitt<\/strong> and Taijuan Walker<\/strong> all becoming free agents. Those three were replaced by signing Justin Verlander<\/strong>, Kodai Senga<\/strong> and Jose Quintana<\/strong>. The club also bolstered its position player mix by re-signing Brandon Nimmo<\/strong> and signing Omar Narvaez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Mets already had one of the highest payrolls in the league in 2022 and those moves have shot them up to incredible new heights. Roster Resource has them at $344MM before even factoring in the Ottavino deal, with a competitive balance tax figure of $356MM. Since the Mets are second-time payors and are well beyond the fourth CBT threshold of $293MM, they are now paying a 90% tax on any further spending. Ottavino will add $7.25MM to that CBT figure, leading to an extra $6.525MM in taxes, meaning the club is effectively paying $13.775MM for Ottavino’s services in 2022.<\/p>\n

Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic first reported the Mets signing Ottavino and the two-year with opt-out structure (twitter<\/a> links<\/a>). Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a> first had the dollar figures.<\/em><\/p>\n

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