Mets officials on Tuesday were considering the options for at least one starting pitching addition to fill a hole behind Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander.
SAN DIEGO — The Mets will enter spring training with maybe the top 1-2 starting pitching punch in baseball, but where are they headed for the third act?
Senga, who turns 30 in January, throws a fastball that can touch triple digits and uses a splitter as his secondary pitch. Last season he averaged 10 strikeouts per nine innings and pitched to a 1.94 ERA for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.Eppler’s experience with Japanese pitchers — for the Yankees he scouted Masahiro Tanaka and as Angels GM signed Shohei Ohtani — has served as a plus in Senga’s recruitment.
Other needs include the bullpen and outfield. On the latter front, the Mets have remained in contact with Brandon Nimmo, according to sources, but there weren’t plans to meet with the outfielder during the winter meetings. Nimmo met with teams for a second straight day on Tuesday at the meetings. “The Mets are on a championship Met-a-morphis and there is nothing I have seen that has changed their direction or attitude toward getting their best players in the marketplace,” Boras said.
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