The New York Mets may have signed Luke Weaver by paying the NL East tax for him. Two years, $22 million is a perfectly reasonable reliever contract in 2025… right up until you see the Philadelphia Phillies handed the exact same deal to Brad Keller and got a much cleaner “what did we just buy?” profile in return.
Let’s be honest about why this may sting from the Mets angle: New York made a very “smart team” signing on paper — a former Yankee who’s shown he can handle leverage — and Philly still managed to make it look like the Mets settled for the slightly riskier version of the same idea.