It didn’t take the Mets long to move on from the Jacob deGrom news. We knew that’d be the case, but didn’t yet know if their answer would be by signing Justin Verlander or Carlos Rodon.
Well, the answer is Verlander, as he reunites with former Detroit Tiger teammate, Max Scherzer, in Flushing. The two sides agreed to a monstrous two-year, $86 million contract, according to Jon Heyman of the New York Post. This is among the biggest deals in franchise history, which is something Steve Cohen has gotten used to doing in his short tenure as the team’s owner.