Mets Meeting With Tarik Skubal

The Mets have a meeting scheduled with the prize of this winter’s free agent crop, two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The two parties will sit down to chat next week. Heyman adds that Skubal is hopeful of getting a deal done before the league imposes a lockout and transaction freeze on Dec. 2 amid collective bargaining negotiations with the players union. Heyman’s colleague, Joel Sherman, wrote just a few minutes prior that rival agents and executives have framed the Mets as one of the more aggressive teams in the early stages of the offseason, both with regard to free agent pursuits and trade talks.

A fit between Skubal and the Mets is an…