While Senga \u2014 who has two years left on a five-year, $75 million contract \u2014 has impressed when healthy, injuries have held him back.<\/p>\n
After a dazzling rookie campaign in 2023 in which he earned an All-Star nod while recording a 2.98 ERA with 202 strikeouts in 29 starts, he made just one regular-season appearance in 2024.<\/p>\n
Senga suffered a shoulder injury in spring training that year, and when he made his season debut on July 26, he strained his calf running off the mound during a popup.<\/p>\n
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Kodai Senga Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n
He was thought to be done for the season but ended up returning for Game 1 of the NLDS and made three playoff appearances, giving up seven runs across five innings.<\/p>\n
Senga was spectacular again to begin 2025, posting a 1.47 ERA through his first 13 starts before he injured his hamstring falling on first base while catching a throw from Pete Alonso. He came back after a month, had a 5.90 ERA over his next nine starts and was then sent down to Triple-A for the final month of the year.<\/p>\n
The Mets\u2019 starting pitching was excellent to begin the season but fell off mightily in the second half.<\/p>\n
Sean Manaea, whom the Mets re-signed to a three-year, $75 million contract after a strong 2024, was out until July this year due to an oblique strain and pitched to a 5.64 ERA in 60\u00a0\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n
Frankie Montas, after signing a two-year, $34 million contract, was out until June after suffering a lat strain in spring training, was demoted to the bullpen due to poor performance and then underwent Tommy John surgery, likely sidelining him for the entire 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Griffin Canning was a pleasant surprise after signing a one-year, $4.25 million contract with a 3.77 ERA but he tore his Achilles in June.<\/p>\n
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David Peterson earned his first All-Star nod and had a 2.83 ERA through his first 21 starts, but he fell apart down the stretch to the tune of an 8.42 ERA over his final nine appearances.<\/p>\n
Clay Holmes was also less effective during the second half in his first full MLB season as a starter.<\/p>\n
The rotation was in such disarray that the Mets relied heavily on prospects Nolan McLean, Jonah Tong and Brandon Sproat in September.<\/p>\n
According to Passan, the Mets are also interested in free-agent reliever Devin Williams, the formerly dominant Brewers closer who struggled with the Yankees this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Mets look to revamp their starting rotation after disappointingly missing the playoffs, they\u2019re prepared to part…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[27641,1266,179519,1305,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-388052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-kodai-senga","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-hot-stove","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115571944433424472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}