Breaking: Mets re-sign Sean Manaea to three-year, $75 million contract

Sean Manaea is back.

Ever since the New York Mets signed Juan Sotomany have been waiting for the next big move David Stearns and Steve Cohen would make. The obvious chips still on the table were the reunion with Manaea and Pete Alonso. Alonso remains on the open market, but Manaea is now headed back to Queens.

ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported Sunday night that the Mets and Manaea have agreed to terms on a three-year contract worth $75 million.

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The Mets now get one of their leading pitchers from 2024 back in the rotation after the addition Frankie Montas and Clay Holmes. Manaea, 32, is coming off the best season of his career in which he pitched as a top-of-the-line starter. Manaea went 12-6 with a 3.47 ERA in 181 2/3 innings. He had 184 strikeouts and a 3.0 WAR. In the absence of Kodai Senga for most of the season, Manaea stepped up and led the rotation as New York reached the playoffs and earned a trip to the NLCS.

Manaea returns to the top of the rotation alongside Senga, with Montas, Holmes, David Peterson and Paul Blackburn round it off. Adding Manaea back to the team gives the Mets a boost in the pitching department, as well as team chemistry in the clubhouse. Manaea was one of the more loved players in the dressing room. It also gives the Mets another lefty in that rotation after Peterson. As pitchers such as Luis Severino, Max Friedand Blake Snell was paid by other teams, the Mets waited out Manaea’s market and got their guy back.