If you were dreaming up potential Mets free agent signings to shore up the starting rotation at the beginning of the offseason, your list probably started with names like Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, or Jordan Montgomery. A name like Sean Manaea was probably not high on your list, if it was even on your list at all.
But while Yamamoto went to LA and Snell and Montgomery still sit untouched on the free agent market, Manaea is the one in Mets camp, the recipient of the largest offseason contract the the richest team in baseball handed out this year.