{"id":168247,"date":"2019-03-26T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168247"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T16:58:28","slug":"ny-mets-ink-degrom-5-years-137-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168247","title":{"rendered":"NY Mets ink deGrom, 5 years, $137.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168249\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/deGrom2019-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/deGrom2019-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/deGrom2019-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/deGrom2019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/deGrom2019-237x175.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom and the New York Mets have agreed to a $137.5 million, five-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The deal guarantees an additional $120.5 million over four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo,David Santiago\/Miami Herald via AP, File)<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the agreement was subject to a successful physical.<\/p>\n<p>New York and deGrom had agreed in January to a $17 million, one-year deal, and he was on track to be eligible for free agency after the 2020 season.<\/p>\n<p>His new deal calls for a $10 million signing bonus, a $7 million salary this season, $23 million in 2020, $33.5 million each in 2021 and 2022 and $30.5 million in 2023. The Mets have a $32.5 million option for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom has the right to opt out of the deal after the 2022 season and become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>A right-hander who turns 31 in June, deGrom had a 1.70 ERA last year yet went 10-9. He allowed three runs or fewer in 29 consecutive starts to close the season, but the Mets were 11-18 in those games.<\/p>\n<p>DeGrom is 55-41 with a 2.67 ERA in five big league seasons. Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen represented the two-time All-Star as co-head of CAA Baseball before the team hired him last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom and the New York Mets have agreed to a $137.5 million, five-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The deal guarantees an additional $120.5 million over four seasons. (Photo,David Santiago\/Miami Herald via AP, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168251,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168247\/revisions\/168251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}